This Kansas district is running out of water—and its leaders won’t do anything to stop it
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After decades of local inaction, Kansas lawmakers are pushing for big changes in irrigation in order to save the Ogallala Aquifer.
JETMORE, Kan. — An inch or two of corn peeks out of the dirt, just enough to reveal long rows forming over the horizon.