Dave Peters
Climate change might change when and how fast rain falls, and that, in turn, could have a dramatic effect on how fast groundwater is recharged. Read more →
MPR News How communities are facing the future
Archives for April 2014
A rural Minnesota research group is suggesting that water availability is becoming an economic bottleneck and that development is being threatened by a need to re-build water and sewage systems around the state. Read more →
Burnsville and Savage find a water solution that preserves a sensitive environmental area and gives some assurance for a long-time supply of drinking water. Read more →
A symposium on water in Minneapolis ended with the question, what would you do with a million dollars to spend on water in Minnesota? It got three different answers that had something in common. Read more →
Michael Olson
Five takeaways from an online chat about groundwater, irrigation and how everyone can find someone else who’s wasting water. Read more →
Gov. Dayton joins the call to spend money on broadband infrastructure. So far, the House wants to spend $25 million; the Senate has not approved any spending. Read more →
The Minnesota Senate approved legislation that would give the Department of Natural Resources more authority to fine irrigators and others who use large amounts of groundwater without a permit. Read more →
Elizabeth Dunbar
Friends of the Mississippi River says a Senate proposal to spend $800,000 studying whether to fill White Bear Lake with river water is a bad idea. It doesn’t solve the larger problem and it’s already being studied by the Metropolitan Council, the group says. Read more →
Broadband adoption continues to rise slowly among Minnesotans, and the gap between rural and urban use is shrinking. But more than 100,000 school-age children do not have access at home. Read more →
How MPR News found hundreds of irrigation wells pumping groundwater without a required state permit. Read more →