Elizabeth DunbarNew Brighton officials are asking a judge to make the U.S. Army keep paying to treat groundwater it contaminated years ago. The treated water supplies both New Brighton and neighboring Fridley with drinking water. Read more →
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Dave Peters
Six things to know from an online chat with Ali Elhassan and Brian Davis at the Metropolitan Council Read more →
Michael OlsonMetropolitan Council stormwater reuse experts Ali Elhassan and Brian Davis will join MPR News Wednesday at noon to take your questions about making better use of stormwater. As concerns increase about how much water Minnesotans are pumping out of the ground for domestic, agricultural, industrial and other uses, one idea that can reduce that pressure Read more →
Water rates have been rising all over the country, but they vary widely from one city to another. Minneapolis is in the middle of the pack; St. Paul falls into the lower third of cities when it comes to the price of water. Read more →
A White Bear Township resident has created a 27-minute documentary on the shrinking White Bear Lake and the larger water conservation issue it invokes. Read more →
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 →
Five takeaways from an online chat about groundwater, irrigation and how everyone can find someone else who’s wasting water. 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 →