Jared Faurot’s blue jeans are getting sprayed under the drip hose sprinklers. Faurot stands beside a center pivot tower, fiddling with a spigot, aiming it closer to the ground. He turned water on this ...

Sheridan County, Kansas, farmer Brett Oelke in mid-October showed how the recently updated spray heads on his center pivot sprinkler systems have been engineered to produce droplets of water that are ...

To save a dying aquifer – or at least their piece of it – a group of roughly 60 farmers in northwest Kansas decided on a self-imposed diet. The move a dozen years ago to voluntarily restrict the water ...

The Ogallala Aquifer, a water source of porous rock and sediment bed under farmland, cities and small towns from South Dakota to Texas, is in crisis. The Ogallala Aquifer provides irrigation for 30% ...

Stretching across eight states from South Dakota down to Texas, the Ogallala Aquifer is the hidden powerhouse beneath America’s breadbasket. It covers roughly 174,000 square miles and holds enough ...

Most people think of water as something that flows visibly: rivers, lakes, rain falling on rooftops. The water hidden ...

For more than 80 years, the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest fresh-water aquifer in the world, has been the main source of agricultural and public water for Nebraska and parts of seven other states. Now ...