New Kansas chief water regulator says climate change threatens his state's water
December 15, 2007
The new chief engineer for the
Kansas Division of Water Resources says climate change (also known as "global warming") is
starting to affect water supplies in the central part of the country, reducing snowpack and overall precipitation trends.
Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska have been locked in some heated disputes over
clean water rights for the last few years, and those are unlikely to ease any time soon.
last revised December 2007