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Protect Your Wells From Flooding

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Protecting your well from flood waters now can reduce your work later. “If you live in a flood-prone area, you or a licensed well-drilling contractor can determine if your well is sited and constructed so that it is protected,” says Roxanne Johnson, North Dakota State University Extension Service water quality associate. “If your well is
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Red River Flood Threat Looms Again

Last week Melvin Edel was looking out the kitchen window at machinery surrounded by four-foot snowbanks and hay bales frozen to the ground. But in a month or so, his farm south of Morris will be under several feet of water, and all he can do is wait. Manitoba Water Stewardship last week predicted a
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Flood Risk General Throughout Manitoba

Seldom in recent memory has Manitoba faced the possibility of a spring flood on so many fronts. The flood potential is high on most of the province’s major rivers and tributaries, Manitoba Water Stewardship warns. The main concern is the Red River, where officials expect a flood slightly above 2009 levels with favourable weather. Unfavourable
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South Africa Assists Flood-And Drought-Hit Farmers

South Africa has allocated 750 million rand ($108 million) to assist farmers affected by floods and drought in some parts of the country, state-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) said March 1. IDC said in a statement 250 million rand would be allocated via financial provider Land Bank for primary agriculture, and 500 million rand would
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China Drought Area Shrinks Fast

The wheat acreage affected by a drought in eight Chinese provinces has fallen by two-thirds since Feb. 8 to 2.52 million hectares, the Ministry of Water Resources said in a statement on its website on Monday. That means the drought area has more than halved since last Thursday, when it was 5.71 million hectares, according
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China’s Wheat Crop Hurt By Drought

Wheat output in China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of the grain, may be at risk after severe winter drought in its main northern producing regions, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization said. “Substantially below-normal rainfall since October 2010 in the North China Plain, the country’s main winter wheat-producing area, puts at risk
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Canada Already Selling Water To The U.S., Conference Told

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Many Canadians worry about exporting their fresh water to the United States, just like oil and natural gas. But according to Maude Barlow, it’s already happening. Canada indirectly exports large volumes of water through the agricultural commodities it sells to the U.S., Barlow told the recent Manitoba Conservation Districts Association annual conference. According to Environment
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Compensation To Continue For

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Manitoba Water Stewardship promises to formalize compensation for property owners who experience summer flooding damage from the Red River Floodway. Currently, people who suffer upstream flooding damage from emergency use of the floodway are compensated under rules governing the facility’s operations. The province says it will embed compensation in law instead of just having it
Crops

Canada Might Be Spared Increased Drought

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Some of the world’s most populous areas – southern Europe, northern Africa, the western U. S. and much of Latin America – could face severe, even unprecedented drought by 2100, researchers said Oct. 19. Increasing drought has long been forecast as a consequence of climate change, but a new study from the U. S. National
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Water Resources Shrinking: Statistics Canada – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Is Canada running short of fresh water? That’s the question raised by a new study which says renewable water resources have fallen in the southern part of the country over the past three decades. The Statistics Canada study found that the region, where 98 per cent of Canadians live, lost 8.5 per cent of its

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