The great aqueduct of Kansas?

(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Nov. 25, 2013)

Martin HawverEver have one of those ideas so big and complicated and distracting that you don’t notice the hamburgers burning on the grill?

Well, we’ve got one running around the Statehouse: The concept of securing the rights to millions of gallons of water from the Missouri River that is the ragged northeast border of Kansas and building a 340-mile long aqueduct with more than a dozen pumping stations to move the water to western Kansas to inject into the shrinking Ogallala Aquifer.