North Dakota Wants Huge Water Pipeline, But Manitoba Objects

February 23, 2006

North Dakota wants to fight drought by building a $500 million pipeline to ship water from the Missouri River to the Red River Valley (which includes Fargo and Grand Forks). Since the Red River flows north into Canada, this irritates some groups in Manitoba who say that the water diversion could introduce unwanted species into their water ecosystem. But without the diversion, the biggest share of North Dakota's population could suffer water shortages. The importance of clean water supplies is as important (and urgent) a question as that of energy supplies in the 21st Century.

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