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

• 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

An eight-mile stretch of the Neosho River will be given a makeover to reshape and stabilize the banks and upgrade the sediment filtering properties of the riparian corridor. The money for the project, sponsored by the Kansas Water Office, will come from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 fund administered by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment through the Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund and the state’s Reservoir Beneficial Use Fund. Read More…