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Kansas to receive $9 million for drought mitigation projects

Kansas is receiving $9 million from the federal government to enhance a pair of drought mitigation projects.

Gov. Laura Kelly says $7 million will support a state project to divert water from the Little Arkansas River into the Kansas Equus Beds Aquifer.

The remaining $2 million will support the Kansas Voluntary Agreements Program for the state-implemented Kansas Water Transition Assistance Program. The project aims to conserve about 10,000 acre-feet by rotating temporary land fallowing or retiring water rights in the Prairie Dog or Rattlesnake Creek Basins.

Funding is being distributed through the Inflation Reduction Act.

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