sediment from the Rocky Mountains was deposited in the High Plains. Over thousands of years, water dripped below the surface creating an underground water deposit called the Ogallala Aquifer.

The Kansas Geological Survey says a rise in irrigation coupled with prolonged drought conditions have led to a substantial ...

Seeking collaboration on solutions to conserve and extend the lifespan of vital water resources in the High Plains, the third Ogallala Aquifer Summit brought politicians and stakeholders from ...

People who live on the Ogallala, also known as the High Plains aquifer, often describe their ... and Oklahoma had been condemned on maps as the Great American Desert, but the cruelest assessment ...

The Kansas Geological Survey earlier this month completed its annual campaign to measure the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies the western one-third of the state with water. The Ogallala ...

It’s also where the Ogallala is the deepest. It is easy to think of an Aquifer as an underground lake, connecting the land underneath the High Plains. It’s not. “The Aquifer itself is not a ...

That is the Ogallala Aquifer. The subsurface reservoirs trapped ... Calen Moore covers western Kansas for High Plains Public Radio and the Kansas News Service.