Sherman Smith
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1,886 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 Sep
Sherman Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh we're talking about the availability of water, the cleanliness of water, uh touches on everything from agricultural use to uh the
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You know, filling up of silt in these reservoirs and lakes in even northeast Kansas, there are already communities in this state that are struggling with day-to-day, week-to-week water supply and high-profile lawsuits out there over some of this.
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The legislature actually a year ago took an initial huge step in allocating $35 million to support the state's.
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Water plan.
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This past year, 2025, they added another $10 million on top of that, recognizing that it wasn't nearly enough.
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They also formed a water program task force to really try to find a more cohesive way of saying what do we want to accomplish with this investment and how can we get there.
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The governor went out to Hayes this summer where she was speaking to a group of people about.
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This Republican legislators showed up, they really praised her and her work on this, which is kind of unusual in this climate.
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And the governor told me then that she wants to s that she thinks of water as one of her real legacies.
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She wants it to be one of her legacies long term.
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When people look back at what she accomplished, I think there's a recognition
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uh that, you know, for years and years now people have said there's gonna there's going to be this water crisis on the horizon, whether it's draining the Ogallala or whatever, um there's going to be this this water crisis.
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I think we have to realize now the water crisis is here and it's gonna take years and years to address.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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And I mentioned this was in in Hayes.
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I think Hayes has been a a leader in sort of
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finding ways to conserve water and and be responsible.
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But also I think emblematic of, you know, people get desperate when a a
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a necessary resource like this is running out.
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