Nebraska Water Balance Alliance

01/11/2024

Registration for the 2024 Ogallala Aquifer Summit is now open! This event will take place at the Seward County Fairgrounds in Liberal, Kansas, as a two-day event, Monday, March 18th from 1-5 pm CDT followed by an evening social, continuing on Tuesday, March 19th from 8 am-4 pm CDT. Please plan to attend both days.
As in 2018 and in 2021, this highly interactive event will focus on engaging participants in sharing and learning about a wide range of activities, efforts, and programs underway to address the region's water-related challenges. As with past years, we anticipate 250+ attendees convening from all 8 Ogallala states for this unique meeting.

REGISTER HERE. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-ogallala-aquifer-summit-tickets-751828929567?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Summit will highlight and inform applied, cross-disciplinary research focused on supporting healthy agroecosystems. In service to that goal, this year’s Summit will be immediately followed by a workshop hosted by the Ogallala Aquifer Program (OAP) research consortium at the same venue. Please contact [email protected] for more info about the OAP meeting.

Additional info including the agenda will be shared soon, with regular updates posted on the 2024 Ogallala Aquifer Summit webpage. https://www.irrigationinnovation.org/2024-ogallala-summit

If flying to Liberal, Kansas, United Airlines offers daily service from Denver. Recommended hotels in Liberal include the Hampton Inn and Fairfield Inn. Some funds are available to support student travel- if interested please contact Joel Lisonbee ([email protected]).

Space is limited, so reserve your place soon! Let us know if you have colleagues whom you'd like us to reach out to with an invite.
We hope to see you there!

Join us for this interactive, 2-day event (3/18-3/19) focused on addressing Ogallala region water challenges

07/01/2021

Nebraska Public Power District featured our collaboration in Behind Your Outlet. Our work with NPPD focuses on bringing connectivity to ALL Nebraskans; empowering rural communities, farmers and businesses. Read about our progress here: https://bit.ly/3dsmMNw

03/11/2021

Tonight at 6 pm Central on NET World, the tv program Nebraska: The Great American Water Machine, will make its world debut. Ground and Surface Water are interconnected. One feeds and grows off the other, without one the other would not exist. This program discusses the impact of the water from Nebraska City to Scottsbluff, from Holdrege to Valentine. The power to grow crops to the power to run your dishwasher comes from water. The program discusses the wide number of groups that use the water that is in Nebraska and the amounts of water that surrounding states receive from this “Great American Water Machine” that we call Nebraska.

This NET World program was put together with Nebraska State Irrigation Association (NSIA) along with the financial backing of the following sponsors: Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District, Nebraska Public Power District, North Platte Valley Irrigation Districts, Farwell Irrigation District, Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District, Sargent Irrigation District, Twin Loups Reclamation & Irrigation District, Tim Anderson Memorial Water Education Fund, and the Water Futures Partnership Nebraska

Schedule of Showings
• Thursday, March 11, 6 p.m. (NET World)
• Thursday, March 25, 7 p.m. (NET World)
• Sunday, March 28, 12 p.m. (NET World)
• Thursday, April 15, 7 p.m. (NET World)
• Sunday, April 18, 12 p.m. (NET World)

01/22/2021

Congratulations, on your retirement David Ford!

We'd like to wish a Happy Retirement to Irrigation Operations Manager Dave Ford. Dave began working for the district in 1987 and served for 34 years, including the past 19 irrigation seasons as operations manager.

Congratulations and happy retirement!

01/17/2021

Congratulations to our very own, Amy Harsch and team on winning the University of Nebraska TAPS 2020 SDI corn Profitability contest! Profitability is the highest award to be won in each category. Decisions: Hybrid Pioneer P1082AM, 33,000 seeds/ac, 120lbs/ac of N, and total irrigation of 8.05" using a Phytech sensor, yielding 265.7 bu/ac and a $5.05/bu average revenue!

Watch as the Testing Ag Performance Solutions (TAPS) program presents the awards for the 2020 farm management competitions.

01/06/2021

We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Metos by Pessl Instruments for distribution of LoRaWAN solutions nationwide. This partnership will deliver a full lineup of environmental monitoring solutions for agriculture, city planning, turf management and ecological research tools to equip our customers with the real-time data they need to succeed. We are honored to work with Metos USA to drive the value of the IoT and LoRaWAN capabilities nationwide http://prn.to/2XekbOC.

10/20/2020

04/22/2020

Happy Earth Day! 🌍🌎🌏

04/16/2020

Much of Nebraska saw snow today. While we appreciate the moisture, maybe not the cold that came with it. Share your favorite snow pictures from today's storm!

04/09/2020

Be sure to check out our Spring 2020 Newsletter!
https://mailchi.mp/20083d522513/nebraska-water-balance-alliance-spring-2020-newsletter

03/11/2020

Last chance to sign up for TPNRD’s new Water Data Program before spring is here!

• Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
• 9:30 am — 2:00 pm MT
• Ogallala
• Fuller & Associates Realty LLC
203 E 3rd St.

Parking on east side of the building.

03/10/2020

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