A Decade After Devils Lake

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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Drinking Water Violations Spike Again in North Dakota

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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Watch: The Story of Bottled Water

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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Commentary: Whiskey’s for Drinkin, Water’s for Fightin

  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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North Dakota Water Officials See Results from Crackdown on Illegal Water Sales

  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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Who’d a-thunk it? Unintended Consequences From a Bottled Water Ban

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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The World is Quickly Running out of Water, New NASA Study Says

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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EPA’s Fracking Analysis: Something For Everyone

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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How Israel became a World Leader in Water Use & Production

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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NDSU Extension Services: Get Pasture Water Tested This Year

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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Over the Next Decade, most US states Will Experience Water Shortages

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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Interview: Senator Hoeven Talks Water, Farm & Ranch Issues on Agripulse

Here’s an opportunity to listen to Senator Hoeven speak in detail on several topics.  

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Health & Human Services Lowers Recommendations for Fluoride in Drinking Water

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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Missouri River an Underutilized Resource

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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Southwest Water Authority has Some Top Notch Water

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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Has the Shale Revolution Gotten us into Deep Water?

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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