Water wounds seep at Senate hearing with Michael Bennet near the Republican River Basin

Agricultural producers, scientists and policymakers from Colorado and Kansas gathered near the Ogallala Aquifer in Burlington on Wednesday to air their concerns and share ideas for how to survive continued drought. But it was hard to escape the Republican River Basin-shaped elephant in the room. The group convened at the behest of U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet, Colorado’s Democratic chair of the conservation, climate, forestry, and natural resources committee, and Roger Marshall, of Kansas, the ranking Republican member of the committee. The location was poignant because it’s in a region where...