Welcome

Welcome to the Kansas Water Office home page.  The Water Office coordinates the Kansas water planning process in concert with the Kansas Water Authority.  The Authority's 24 members include representatives from diverse water use interest groups and leaders of the state's natural resource agencies.

Advice on policy development comes from Basin Advisory Committees in each of the state's 12 river basins and other local stakeholders.  The Authority, in turn, advises the Governor and Legislature on water issues to be considered for policy enactment.

Water planning in Kansas is an open process.  Keep coming back to this web site for the latest in policy proposals and schedules of the basin advisory committees and Kansas Water Authority meetings.

Tracy Streeter, Director

Hot Topics

• KWA Mailing Materials
   

• KWA -  Clean Water Act Letter to Kansas Congressional Delegation
   

• Stream & Riparian Restoration in the Upper Neosho River Basin
   

• Water Conservation Education-WaterSense
   

• Joint BAC Flood Meeting Presentations
   

• Wilson Lake Corps of Engineers Reallocation Study Process
   

• Hillsdale PWWSD
   

• BAC Membership
   

• Sediment Baseline Assessment Work Plan
   

• Mission Lake Design-Dredge Project
   

• Public Water Supply System GIS Mapping Assistance Program
   

• Feasibility Study (Restoration & Maintenance of the Access to the Neosho River at Jacobs Creek-John Redmond Reservoir) Final Report
   

• Surface Water Supply and Demand Report
   

• Drought Report

regional and state water issues confront kansas water authority
Irrigators' access to stored water in Kanopolis Lake, the Reservoir Roadmap to secure, protect and restore reservoir storage for water supply, water supply management enhancements in the Lower Republican River basin and the State Water Plan Fund budget for the FY2011. These are the key topics members of the KWA will consider when they meet August 13-14, 2009 at the Friendship Center in Salina, KS.  Read More . . .

Kansas water authority urges caution in passage of clean water restoration act
The Kansas Water Authority urges Congress to avoid unintended consequences as it considers passage of the Clean Water Restoration Act.  Read More . . .