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Kansas Water Office frames climate-linked extremes, urges integrated planning and data investments
Summary
The Kansas Water Office presented long-term trends of increasing temperature, more intense precipitation events and greater variability; staff urged integrated planning across flood, drought and water-supply functions and called for expanded real-time data and coordination at local, regional and state levels.
Matt Unruh, assistant director of the Kansas Water Office, told the Water Program Task Force that Kansas’ historical and projected climate trends — rising temperatures, more intense short-duration rainfall events, and high variability across short distances — complicate long-term water-supply planning.
Unruh summarized national and regional climatology, noting that higher average temperatures increase evaporation and evapotranspiration…
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