# Terms — ks-water-use

> What this site is, what it is not, and the conditions the source attaches to its data.

## Terms

An independent site. Not the Survey, not the Division, and not advice on any water right.

### What this site is

An independent copy of one public file. Not affiliated with, endorsed by,
or connected to the Kansas Geological Survey, the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas Department of Agriculture, or the State of Kansas.

**This is not advice on a water right.** We
quote K.S.A. 82a-732 and 82a-718 and the regulations under them. What they
mean for a particular file number is a question for a Kansas water lawyer and
for the Division, not for a website.

**These are reported figures.**
These are the figures water-right holders reported. They describe declared use, not what a meter would have read, and they say nothing about the condition of a well or the state of the aquifer beneath it.

Our copy is dated **2026-08-22**. Reports land each
spring and ours does not update itself.

### ⚠️ Not a consumer reporting agency

This site is **not** a consumer reporting agency as defined by
the **Fair Credit Reporting Act** (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.), and
nothing published or sold here is a consumer report.

You may not use this site, its pages, its search, its API or any dataset
obtained from it, in whole or in part, as a factor in deciding a person's
eligibility for:

- **employment**, promotion, reassignment or retention;
- **credit** or insurance underwriting;
- **housing** or tenancy;
- any other purpose covered by the FCRA.

Verifying that a licence exists, directly with the issuing authority, is a
different act from screening a person — and where a decision about someone
depends on it, the check belongs with a screening company that operates as a
consumer reporting agency and carries the obligations that come with it.

### Having your record removed

If you are named on this site and would rather not be, [write to us](/contact.md) and we will remove you. You do not have to explain why, and we
will not ask.

Two things this cannot do, and we say so plainly rather than let you find
out later: it does not change the official register, which is where the record
actually lives; and it does not remove you from anyone else's copy of the same
public data.

### The sources, and what they require

This site republishes public registers. Source by source: the licence it is published under, and the condition its publisher sets — read from the publisher's own terms page, on the date shown.

| Source | Licence | What the publisher requires |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas water use — Kansas Geological Survey, from the annual reports collected by the Division of Water Resources | Kansas Geological Survey terms of use | The Survey grants the right, without fee, to access, publish, distribute and modify this material, and asks two things in return. First, a citation quoted word for word, carried in the footer of every page here. Second, « The name KGS may not be used in any advertising or publicity to endorse or promote any products or commercial entity » — so the Survey is cited as the source of the data and never as a backer of anything we sell. Beyond the terms, three limits belong to the file itself and this site repeats them everywhere: the layer ships each point twice and summing it doubles the water; there are no blanks in the usage columns, so a zero is ambiguous; and reported use swings about 40% with rainfall, so no two years may be compared. — Terms read on 2026-08-22, terms |

### Attribution the source requires

The Survey's terms require a citation, and it is quoted here word for word:

The source of this material is the Kansas Geological Survey website at http://www.kgs.ku.edu/. All Rights Reserved.

The same terms provide that the Survey’s name may not be
used to endorse or promote a product or a commercial entity. Nothing here
— including [Pro access](/pro.md) and
[Datasets](/data.md) — presents the Kansas Geological Survey as backing what
we sell.

### Errors

If a page here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. If the underlying
record is wrong we cannot fix that — it has to be corrected with the
Division, and our copy follows at the next collection.

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Página: https://ks-water-use.pages.dev/terms/
Fonte: Kansas water use — Kansas Geological Survey, from the annual reports collected by the Division of Water Resources
Recolha: 2026-08-22