water rights

The extra $25 million for the Kansas Water Plan would come from the State General Fund.

The outcomes could determine what roles state officials and local governments will play in securing quality water supplies for future generations.

Kansas lawmakers are back in session in Topeka. The governor wants them to address the state's ongoing water problems. But will they? Commentator Rex Buchanan has more on the state's long-running water problems - problems that many are now calling a crisis.

But local and state officials say without more help from the feds, the project to bring safe drinking water to southeastern Colorado will be halted again

By the time it reaches Holly, nearly to Kansas, the river is left with salts and pollutants picked up along the way

Under a new agreement, Mexico will release 202,000 acre-feet of water to the U.S. beginning this week.

No new taxes would be collected for the package that would give the state's water department $1 billion to spend on projects like cleaning salty water, flood control and reservoirs.

Guymon's Mesa Water Project is expected to deliver its first drops to the city in October of next year.

Texas lawmakers convened in a rapidly growing part of West Texas to sign new legislation aimed at addressing a looming water crisis across the state.

Gov. Greg Abbott and other leaders have called for a major investment to save the state's water supply. How to spend the money has caused friction at the Capitol.