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February 23, 2006
Plan to send Missouri River water to Canada creating worry.
North Dakota plans to divert water from the Missouri River into a system that would take it over the border to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, the world's 10th largest freshwater lake and home to a commercial fishery.
North Dakota say that it faces severe drought within 50 years and needs to tap water from the Missouri, which normally flows into the Mississippi River and then on to the Gulf of Mexico.
"Our concern would be that brings a risk of harm to Manitoba with the potential movement of harmful, invasive species," Dwight Williamson of Manitoba Water Stewardship told Reuters in a recent interview.
Merri Mooridian, of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District in North Dakota said, "We feel this alternative, with the proper treatment, will not harm the water", as reported by Reuters.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at February 23, 2006 07:01 PM
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