Conservation
The Omaha World Herald had an editorial today critical of those that say conservation has a significant effect on the stream.
The Omaha paper might want to take a look at this site for the multiple references to conservation, including the links to a conservation study done by James Koelliker from Kansas State as well as see statements made by more than one DNR director.
They might also look at this video on YouTube taken by the Thoms of T&L irrigation.
Why does the Omaha paper want to belittle the effects of conservation? Perhaps it is because if they acknowledge the effects of conservation, then it means the irrigators they have attempted to make into criminals might not be as guilty as they would like them to be. In my opinion, the Omaha paper is one of the primary distributors of the idea that irrigators are guilty of plundering "the people's property." The Omaha paper tends to report stories that support this idea and suppress stories that disagree with this idea. It is hard to trust or respect people who knowingly abuse their power in this way. Since they are willing to do this on this subject, what other subjects have their truths distorted? Scary.