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Cheney Lake is drying up. Wichita says the drought plan is working

One big rainstorm won’t fix Wichita’s water shortage.Dark storm clouds that hovered over Wichita one mid-September softened the ring of cracked dirt that’s inched wider around Cheney Lake each week, but it didn’t erase the underlying problem.Kansas is in a drought.For much of the last year, Cheney Lake, Wichita’s primary water source, has drained away under hotter and drier-than-average conditions.

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