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Friday. December 3.1971
University Daily Kansan
Irrigation Drains Kansas Water
By JOHN GOODRICK
By JOHN GOODRICH
Kansan Staff Writer
Western Kansas is depleting its water supply. More people are going to irrigation, more water is being used and less is becoming available.
Within the last 40 years the water supply has been decreasing locally in many areas and in some areas has dropped as much as 100 feet, according to an article in *Kansas Water News*, a news outlet of the University's water publication of Kansas Water Resources Board.
"WATER LEVELS have fallen and are continuing to fall at a fairly moderate rate and there is no reason to think that they will stop." said William Steps, assistant engineer of the Water Resources Board of the State Department of Agriculture in Topeka.
There is a problem Steps said in that the total resource is being reduced but added. "It is of no use unless it is used."
Steps said the laws governing water-use deal with the optimum amount of water for the greatest crop yield.
"They don't be efficient
The least amount of water to
produce the maximum amount of
water is be formulated.
Suggested steps.
WATER RIGHTS, one of the major laws governing water use, are brought from the state. Steps said, since no one owns water in Kansas unless it is in their impounded property, because *copyright of rights* is "first in time is first in right." The person who holds an earlier water right thus has priority over those who buy their later and one can lose his right to the water if his withholding does not well who has bought prior rights.
On the books now is a major amendment to the Ground Water Management Act said, which creates the possibility of farmers joining in groups to help regulate water that far none have signed," he said.
GEORGE CLAUSEN, director of the Water Resources Institute, will speak at a engineering at the University of Kansas, said this "enabling legislators ground conservation decision form which would help "us to help them formulation plans to properly utilize their water resource."
Claused the young farmers are more likely to go into irrigation than the older ones. The older farmers are less interested in changing present conditions in caring for farmer is concerned with increasing profits to pay off initial investments.
Using irrigation, Clausen said,
"ten to 20 dollars profit per acre
foot of water" might be realized
from using high-quality alfalfa.
Using high value crops, such as sugar beets, beans or potatoes, a farmer might expect
15% revenue.
The cost of irrigation, however,
costs in the form of **wells**, **pumping**
spreading of the water (canals,
headgates), maintenance and
"People are going to put in "walls until it hits their pocketbook too hard." This is proportional to the distance needed to be pumped," Clausen said.
'Irrigation is using the lion's toes of the water in the town,' said water table had formed slowly, over geologic time and essentially not being a water source.
Of the rainfall in western Kansas he said, "90 per cent evaporates and about 10 per cent
The Editor To Get Job In Capitol
David Bartel, editor of the University Daily Kansan, will be in Washington, D.C., for the Spartan Conference a Sears Professional Intern.
While in Washington, Bartel will be assigned to Rep. Michael R. Pelosi for writing research and general office work for the congressman. His duties will also include some public relations work. Bartel said he is interested in that of an assistant press secretary. Bartel said he would be taking part in meetings, conferences and hearings and would be taking a three hour course in the evening on reporting of Congressional matters.
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is run off. Very little goes back into the ground."
The internship is a three month program and Bartel must be in Washington by Jan. 10. While there, the Sears Foundation grants $3,500 plus travel expenses of the persons in the program
"I am very pleased with me," I say. "I am a Congressman in Harrison Heath. I want to represent Democrat." Bartel said. "I don't expect any conflicts of political opinion."
Bartel plans to return to KU next fall to finish his bachelor's degree.
*nuck Bain, hydrologist for the*
*burgeon Survey in Lawrence*
*and supply in western Kansas as*
*Dropping some, but we will have*
*no more*.
"In 30 years, or so, we may have to curtail irrigation," he said. "We won't run out," Bain added.
"Economically you can pump
"We've had one-quarter security damaged. $5,000 to $10,000 for water and tailwater and partly due to the set up for irrigation which naturally causes damage."
that drains from excess irrigation.
Betsy  Wigner,  Luddel sophomore, lives on a 1800-acre farm in northwest Kansas, 30 acres are in the city, and 24 acres are in wheat and some of
The Great Western Processing
Center is one of the many
processes sugar beets, 80 lbs in
away." Access the border into
beets," says the manager of a lot of
beets. "Miss Wagner's kitchen."
Some farmers, he said, may go back to dry-land farming.
Background Report
Recharge is one possible method of combating the problem of decreasing water supply. Bain said. Recharge is used to keep water is trapped and left to seeen the ground to reenlash the spply.
Locally the water situation in a basin is becoming increasingly our students explained how the water supply shortage was noticeable to
it so far. The city can afford to go deeper and doesn't use the quantities the farmers do." Bain said.
Maynard Herron. Manter sophomore from Ackermann's alcerate high school in southwest Kansas. He raises wheat and milo and doesn't get into the business.
Suggestions to implement recharge have included plans such as the building of banks in Alaska and Canada. "The water may be more valuable for irrigation than for navigation," said Todd Snyder.
"Our water level has been lower than Famines' McDonald junior, who like McDonald's 960 acre farm one mile northeast of McDonald in northwest Kent."
"Some... are pretty wild creatures and are in pain. We're using the water faster than its getting back in. We'll be able to it will be before it's trouble."
Kansas also means irrigation.
"Imost all farmers around us
irrigate. Just this week we put in a submersible pump in place in the
mountain, down 100 feet," Fainson said.
"My dad is 60, too old to get started. By far, the younger farmers are irrigating much more. Because of the cost in irrigation, $10,000 to 15,000 who will irrigate, Faimao said.
Ron  Studebaker, Elkart
Minion on the left.
Minion on the border
along the southwest section of the state.
He raises milo and wheat on 14
August.
"We never have had much problem (with the water supply) except the last couple of years; we can't build a suit to get enough water," he said.
"Locally around the farm there has been a lot of irrigation going on," he said, though his father does not irrigate.
"He's 65." Studebaker said,
"That's probably the reason he's not in irrigation."
He said some irrigating farmers are "careless with their tailwater," which is that water
"We have windmills," she said.
"Our water level is dropping. The past few years the water has become more mineralized. Out in that area it's hard to find water. The water is dry, though, it all good. There really is a good supply, but its dropping a little."
the remainder in pasture
"Everyone around us except one irrigates and he has a well," Herron said.
She said more sugar beets are being raised in her area. The raising of sugar beets in western
In response to a question on whether he has noticed a change in his hair, the housewife "Definitely. Houses well have gone dry causing them to drill deeper. One uncle living a mile west had to drill at least 40 feet deep."
"I can think of four neighbors, the farthest is five miles away, that have had to drill new house and last five years," Herron said.
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Agreeing with the other students on the age of irrigators he said, "it'll make an old man out of a young one."
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