Saving the Ogallala Aquifer (Junction City, Wilson: college, live in, authority)

[mshultz]

https://hayspost.com/posts/28b2ccfa-...6-d7dd30ab0d96


The Kansas Water Authority wants to decrease the withdrawals to a sustainable level. This is a change from the previous policy of eventually depleting the aquifer. A definite improvement, in my opinion.

[GraniteStater]

Too little too late in my opinion. Most people knew these were issues decades ago. The liberal water management from so called "conservatives" is typical hypocrisy for many that live in western Kansas. Irrigation was exactly the same as water mining to grow crops that never should have been grown in the area- only dryland crops like wheat, milo, sorghum, etc. should have ever been grown in combination with ranching. That's also why the massive feedlot, packing plant, SW Kansas corridor will be in rapid decline in the near future as water tables collapse further, "cheap" feed to supply the feedlots becomes expensive, and demand for beef declines due to overall warming climate/more persistent longer drought cycles/less cattle.

[AnywhereElse]

They are wanting to put in a large slaughter facility in Junction City, KS. I am one of the people that strongly am opposed to this. Most of Kansas is in drought conditions or nearly there.

I think that maybe it is time that the people start thinking about having water and making that a priority over beef!

We get so little rain, that I do not see where recovery could even come from at the point that we are at now. Although, "The Kansas Water Authority", if they are as corrupt as the rest of the state offices, will probably not happen, money talks.

https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-04-01...water-runs-dry

"It supplies 70 to 80% of the water used by Kansans each day."

"Wilson said 80-90% of the water used in the Ogallala aquifer region goes to irrigation. That averages out to about 2.5 billion gallons a day, pumped up and sprayed on crops."

There has been some voluntary reductions by the farmers as they realize that without water, their land will have very little to no value.

When we were in the Tucson, AZ area, they were irrigating land and growing cotton, some experiment and waste of water by a college. It was quite a bite of acreage too. Then, they said we should use less water, as they were building a giant golf course, grassed to the hilt!

The world has been very wasteful with natural resources.