Environmental Policy

The KAWG supports voluntary irrigation water conservation and retirement efforts, including the Water Transition Assistance Program (WTAP). (August, 2007)

The KAWG supports current policy of allowing local landowners and water users to organize and manage regional groundwater supplies per the Kansas Groundwater Management District Act. (August, 2007)

The KAWG supports enforcement of existing water regulations. (December, 2004)

The KAWG supports environmental stewardship and conservation of our natural resources including soil, water, air. We endorse existing Conservation Title programs and the Ogallala Aquifer conservation legislation. (November, 2006)

The KAWG supports the use of money acquired from successful litigation of natural resource disputes for conservation programs that are open to producers throughout the state (November, 2006)

The KAWG supports an agriculture exemption for the regulation of particulate matter. (November, 2006)