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Kansas Governor Laura Kelly updated drought declaration for Kansas counties and kept all counties in watch, warning or emergency status. The drought declaration placed 67 counties into an emergency status, 11 counties in a warning status and 27 into a watch status. This action was recommended by the director of the Kansas Water Office and chair of the Governor’s Drought Response Team. High Plains Journal (Dodge City, Kan.), Oct 6, 2022 Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly signed an executive order on June 27, updating the drought emergency status for some counties. All 105 counties were in a watch, warning or emergency status. The declaration identifies 34 counties as being in emergency status, 8 in a warning and 63 in a watch. Precipitation has been better in June, but the increase in heat will likely lead to intensifying drought conditions in coming weeks. An interagency agreement between the Kansas Water Office, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and the Kansas Division of Emergency Management lets counties in a drought emergency draw water from certain fishing lakes and also makes them eligible to access water from some federal reservoirs. WIBW-TV 13 (Topeka, Kan.), June 28, 2022 All 105 Kansas counties are in watch, warning or emergency status. The drought declaration placed 19 counties into an emergency status, 61 counties in a warning status and 25 into a watch status. Counties in emergency stage are eligible for emergency use of water from certain state fishing lakes. These counties also become eligible for water in some federal reservoirs. The counties in a drought emergency are Barber, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley, Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Harper, Haskell, Kearny, Meade, Montgomery, Morton, Seward, Stanton, Stevens and Sumner. The counties in a drought warning are Barton, Butler, Cheyenne, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Edwards, Elk, Ellis, Ellsworth, Ford, Geary, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Harvey, Hodgeman, Jewell, Kingman, Kiowa, Labette, Lane, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Marshall, McPherson, Mitchell, Morris, Nemaha, Neosho, Ness, Norton, Osborne, Ottawa, Pawnee, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Pratt, Rawlins, Reno, Republic, Rice, Riley, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Saline, Scott, Sedgwick, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Stafford, Thomas, Trego, Wallace, Washington, Wichita and Wilson. The counties in a drought watch are Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chase, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Greenwood, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Lyon, Miami, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Woodson and Wyandotte. KRSL (Russell, Kan.), March 17, 2022