Water Rights Resources

Overview: This page provides links to information on a wide variety of topics related to Kansas water right and groundwater management information and data.

Water Right and Related Data:

• Overview of Water Right and Related Data;
• WIMAS (water right data);
• WWC5 (well logs).

Groundwater Management Districts

• Overview of GMDs, their mission, powers, organization.
• Pages on each GMD: Western KS GMD1; Equus Beds GMD2; Southwest GMD 3; Northwest KS GMD 4; Great Bend GMD5.

Kansas Legislative Action

2024-25 Water Project Task Force

State Water Agencies

• Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA), Division of Water Resources (DWR), allocates and manages the state’s water resources, Interstate compacts (Republican River, KS-CO Arkansas River, and more) and regulation of stream and flood plains
• KDA, Division of Conservation (DOC) funding of natural resources project via state water plan.
• Kansas Water Office (KWO) – State’s water planning agency
• Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Division of Environment – water quality

Other local water agencies:

• Watershed Districts. State Association of Kansas Watersheds (SAKW)

Associations:

• Kansas Rural Water Association assists Kansas water and wastewater utilities