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The Environmental Protection Agency announced the first federal limits on PFAS in drinking water. Only two Midwestern states currently have limits on levels acceptable in drinking water.
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Missouri is home to a host of reliable freshwater systems, but lawmakers worry that dryer states will look to it for supplies. A bill advancing through the Missouri House prohibits exporting water to other states without a permit.
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People in the agriculture industry are still looking for local solutions to save what is left of the Ogallala aquifer that supports western Kansas. But systemic challenges are making it a slow effort.
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Critics say the Missouri legislation debated this week could jeopardize the state’s groundwater and 136,000 miles of streams.
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The statewide effort to clean up drinking water was prompted by a 2022 Missouri law, and more than $27 million has been set aside to fix the problems.
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College students are testing private wells in south-central Kansas. The results are prompting families to install treatment systems to reduce nitrate levels.
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Several Kansas lakes are currently under a health advisory due to toxic algae blooms. As temperatures rise, new research from the University of Kansas shows, these toxic water events are expected to worsen and spread to more northern states.
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States like North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana will have to deal with toxic blue-green algae blooms already common in Kansas. Utility companies will have to act fast to treat drinking water and keep it safe.
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About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to monitoring how much groundwater irrigators are pumping out.
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As temperatures reach the triple digits across Kansas City, more people are going to hospital emergency rooms than in previous years. Doctors share the common symptoms people report and what can be done to avoid a similar outcome.
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Kansas City has been trying to make Brush Creek somewhere people gather for almost 100 years. Now, the city is giving it another shot with a new master plan based on community feedback in the hopes that focusing on amenities instead of flood control will finally make the creek a destination.
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A new global study, published in Nature, found microplastics in every lake sampled — no matter how remote. A researcher from the University of Kansas talks about how local bodies of water stack up.