On a day when lawmakers made headlines across the state for considering a slate of bills to roll back Kansas voting laws and transgender rights, a pair of bills designed to attack the state’s looming water crisis didn’t make a drop in the bucket. Indeed, while members of both parties became mired in contentious debate, the water bills became a rare respite of bipartisan acclaim — one Rep. Doug Blex, R-Independence, believed came not a moment too soon. “We’ll have a tendency to kick this can down the road,” Blex, a biologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, said on the House floor. “And it has been kicked for too long. We need to do it.”
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