Center pivot irrigation systems like this one in Finney County pump water up from the Ogallala aquifer to spray on crops. This part of southwest Kansas experienced some of the state’s worst aquifer declines last year as drought pushed farmers to pump more water from underground DAVID CONDOS/KNS
BY DAVID CONDOS HPPR/Kansas News Service The water in the Ogallala aquifer is worth billions of dollars to western Kansas, but it’s rapidly disappearing. And…