To insure there is not a water shortage for your kids, even grandkids, the Panhandle Regional Water Planning Group presented a regional plan based mostly on conservation.
Those conservation measures are geared toward agriculture, and include better engineering, crops that use less water, better tilling methods, and in some cases going back to dry land.
If those plans are adopted, in the next 50 years, by 2060, the panhandle will only be using about 50 percent of the Ogallala aquifer.
That's compared to more than 85% today.
"It is very important for the region because water sustains agriculture, which is the largest industry we have here in the panhandle, as well as it's life sustaining. you can't have a municipality, a residence without water, so it's the long run, conservation while still being economically viable is very important," said Kyle G. Ingham, the Local Government Services Director.
A plan must be adopted by September 1, 2010.
There is expected to be another meeting at the end of July/the beginning of August.
