(Associated Press/JournalStar.com) -- The AP reports that some Nebraska officials are suggesting "an irrigation shutdown in a large swath of the Republican River basin during dry years to help send Kansas the water it is owed."
An official who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity said that "under the plan presented to natural resources districts, groundwater wells within possibly a couple miles of the river and its main tributaries that irrigate between 250,000 acres and 334,000 acres would be shut down" during "water-short years when Harlan County Lake was less than about one-third full."
See the story at <http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/article_0eb3d738-9199-11de-91f2-001cc4c03286.html>
