{"id":3211,"date":"2025-07-28T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/water-is-our-most-valuable-resource-new-law-will-limit-water-exports-from-missouri-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:00:51","slug":"water-is-our-most-valuable-resource-new-law-will-limit-water-exports-from-missouri-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/water-is-our-most-valuable-resource-new-law-will-limit-water-exports-from-missouri-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Water is our most valuable resource\u2019: New law will limit water exports from Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Mississippi River in Hannibal (Courtesy of Rebecca Smith).<\/p>\n

By limiting large-scale water exports from the state, experts and farmers said Missouri has taken forward-thinking measures to protect one of its most vital resources. According to them, it will benefit agriculture, industry and municipal services in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Governor Mike Kehoe signed new legislation into law<\/a> on July 14 that limits large-scale water exports from Missouri. The law, which takes effect Aug. 28, requires a permit for water exports and restricts withdrawals for export to within 30 miles of the state border. It also mandates annual reporting of water usage to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n

David Borrok, dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, said that a number of other states in the U.S have been taking similar measures as demand for water grows.<\/p>\n

\u201cMissouri is a water-rich state, and I\u2019d say, arguably, water is our most valuable resource as a state,\u201d Borrok said. \u201cIt\u2019s the engine that sort of underpins all economic development and things in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Missouri is home to more than 110,000 miles of rivers and streams<\/a>. Each year, rainfall creates more than 15 trillion gallons of runoff<\/a> that flows into these rivers, lakes and streams. About 38 trillion gallons come into the state through the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. It is estimated that the state<\/a> has about 500 trillion gallons of usable-quality groundwater.<\/p>\n

Daniel Downing, a water quality specialist with the University of Missouri Extension, believes the motivation behind this legislation is the preservation of Missouri\u2019s abundant water supplies.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the state borders, especially the western border, there may be parties harvesting or considering harvesting water from Missouri and pumping it into Oklahoma and\/or Kansas, where they have restrictive water allotments,\u201d Downing said in an email.<\/p>\n

Missouri has very few, if any, restrictions on the quantity of water one can harvest in compliance with Missouri\u2019s Riparian Rights water law, Downing said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMissouri water law allows the use of reasonable amounts of water as long as it does not deprive others of what they need,\u201d Downing said. \u201cIn the Western states, water quantity and use are regulated under allotment and\/or appropriation systems that tightly control how much water they can access.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ogallala Aquifer is a very important underground water source for many states, like Kansas, Nebraska and others. However, it does not extend into Missouri. Increased populations, development and droughts have created more demand for water in these states, Downing said.<\/p>\n

Research shows that<\/a>, due to pumping water for irrigation, the aquifer is now dangerously close to running dry. To mitigate that, there was a plan proposed<\/a> to move water from the Missouri River in eastern Kansas, near Kansas City, to help refill the Ogallala Aquifer in western Kansas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe use and apparent gradual depletion of the aquifer has been a topic of research and discussion for many years, resulting in limitations on the use of water from it,\u201d Downing said. \u201cThese circumstances, as well as other influences and restrictions, make it inviting to look across the state line and covet the abundance of water we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed a bill in July<\/a> establishing a water conservation task force to tackle the state\u2019s water issues. The task force will identify water-related risks, determine what constitutes a sustainable water supply and explore funding options for future water projects. Additionally, a Water Planning Work Group will work to update and modernize the State Water Resources Planning Act.<\/p>\n

According to the Missouri Water Resources Plan<\/a>, updated in 2020, the state\u2019s residents and businesses use an average of 3.2 billion total gallons of water each day. Of that total, 78% comes from groundwater sources, while the remaining 22% is supplied by surface water.<\/p>\n

Borrok emphasized that water security is essential for the state\u2019s long-term economic growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the manufacturing that we might want to attract to the state,\u201d Borrok said. \u201cAll data centers, all these sorts of things use massive, massive amounts of water, and no major company will move to a state that doesn\u2019t have the water resources necessary to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agricultural irrigation accounts for the largest share of the state\u2019s consumptive water withdrawals at 65%. Major water systems contribute another 25%, while all other sectors combined make up the remaining 10% of annual withdrawals.<\/p>\n

Tom Waters is a seventh-generation farmer from Orrick, Missouri and also serves as a consultant at the Missouri Water Center. He and his family raise corn, soybeans and wheat.<\/p>\n

Although Waters doesn\u2019t do any irrigation on the land he farms, he said that in southeast Missouri, particularly in the Bootheel area, the practice is quite common.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeeping that water to irrigate Missouri crops is important versus sending it to other states,\u201d Waters said. \u201cThe difference between an irrigated crop and a non-irrigated crop always depends on the weather and drought conditions and those sorts of things. But, traditionally, the irrigation more than pays for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Waller, board president and national director at the Missouri Rural Water Association, said every drop Missouri exports outside the state is lost.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo a municipality that might need water within the state, if it was being exported in large quantities outside the state, they might not have water for their usage,\u201d Waller said. \u201cI don\u2019t know that is happening anywhere, but that is one possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waller said the Department of Natural Resources didn\u2019t previously have a way of tracking water that was being transported outside the state, nor a way of regulating it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis at least gives the department the authority to monitor and make those decisions so that they know what\u2019s going on,\u201d Waller said.<\/p>\n

In northern Missouri, the groundwater is very salty, so a lot of their water comes from surface water. Borrok said those municipalities need to keep their water for drinking purposes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the same way as agriculture, you just want it not to overdraft your bank of water,\u201d Borrok said. \u201cRecreation-wise, that\u2019s a huge one too. There\u2019s gotta be massive amounts of tourism dollars coming in from Lake of the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake and the Scenic Riverways here and if you start taking water and pumping it somewhere else, you could potentially, over time, negatively impact some of those resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Missouri\u2019s statewide consumptive water demand is expected to rise by 18%, or by approximately 583 million gallons per day, by 2060, according to the Missouri Water Resources Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the law does restrict exports, Borrok said it doesn\u2019t completely close the door to out-of-state water sharing. Now, exporting water would have to go through a permit process, evaluating potential financial benefits or losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cA small farmer could possibly export a little bit of water through a canal to another place, and maybe we don\u2019t know about that,\u201d Borrok said. \u201cBut the real impact that it\u2019s trying to avoid is a massive export of water, like hundreds of millions of gallons a month, or three million gallons a day or some massive amount and that would be noticed in terms of the monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story originally appeared in Missouri<\/span> Business<\/span> Alert<\/span><\/a>, a digital newsroom covering business<\/span> and the economy in Missouri<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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