Roads and towns around Devils Lake have been under siege the rising lake for more than a decade. The Winnipeg Free Press takes a look back at the story of the rising water and the fight over where to put it.
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Growing water distribution systems and high turnover among operators are contributing to the rise drinking water violations across North Dakota. Though the majority of violations are due to failure to sample, there are cases related to contaminants in the water.
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This is an older video, but it’s the first in a series of ‘water’ stories in today’s news feed. Bottled water is hard the environment and even harder on the pocketbooks of people who buy it. Get the full story in the video below.
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New regulations handed down by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are set to make life a little more burocratic for farmers and ranchers. And for one North Dakota farmer-attorney, that means getting more things in writing so he’s covered legally.
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In order to sell water in North Dakota, the State Water Commission has to give you the OK, and the skyrocketing demand for water in the oil patch has brought this issue front and center.
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Laws and public policy have consequences, and they’re often one’s we haven’t considered when we champion the idea of the ‘public good’. Here’s one clear-cut example of regulatory policy advanced for public welfare that produced opposite results.
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It’s not a problem we’ve had to deal with recently here in North Dakota, but in other parts of the world water shortages are growing concern. And a new study by NASA suggests that many of world’s aquifers are being rapidly depleted.
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The news around North Dakota yesterday was that the EPA’s fracking analysis declared fracking safe for drinking water. But for those who oppose fracking, they found what they wanted in the report too. Here’s the analytical coverage of the media coverage.
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If you’re a regular reader on The Minot Voice, you may have noticed we point to a lot of stories on water. It’s because in one way or another — too much, too little, and who controls it — it affects us in significant ways. And it’s our bet that the next hundred years will
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Limited snowmelt and the lack of rainfall this spring means producers should have the water quality in their pastures tested before turning their livestock out to pasture, North Dakota State University Extension Service specialists advise.
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Though we’ve got more than enough water right now, it seems likely that the tables will turn on us at some point the future. And in Montana, the state legislature is acting preemptively to find solutions to what state officials see as inevitable problems.
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Here’s an opportunity to listen to Senator Hoeven speak in detail on several topics.
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Putting fluoride in drinking water is one of those age-old public health policies. Nationally, its origins in practice date back to the 1960s, and though I don’t have information on when we in Minot began adding fluoride to our drinking water, I can say that as of 2013, it was a tool we were still
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Water is a valuable resource, and state and county water officials want to create a long-term water usage plan that protects the resources and our state’s water interests.
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Water, water, everywhere and we always need to drink it. And in Dickinson and those serviced by the Southwest Water Authority they’re drinking some tasty water — fourth best in the world. Get an inside look at the process that delivers it from KMOT News.
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For every barrel of oil we produce, we generate 1.6 barrels of water that we have to deal with. Clearly, water technology has a big role to play in the Bakken. Writing for the Bismarck Tribune, Jason Spiess goes in-depth on the water issue.
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