The dry bed of the Arkansas River near the Santa Fe Trail crossing at Cimarron. The Ogallala aquifer groundwater levels in much of western Kansas started dropping in the 1950s as pumping increased, according to the Kansas Geological Survey. Photo by Max McCoy
By Allison Kite Kansas Reflector KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the better part of a decade, the drinking water supply for a small southwest Kansas…
