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The high-tech future of flood fighting

By Alexis Stockford July 21, 2022

WATER | More and more technology is coming into play when planning management projects

It’s another year in which flooding is on Manitoba’s mind. In May, communities along the Red River suddenly became islands after almost a month of weekly Colorado lows. Major highways were closed for weeks. Municipal roads were washed out. Residents were filling and placing sandbags. In mid-June, producers in Manitoba’s Interlake faced flash flooding after

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Water management: What’s the plan?

A full-fledged water management strategy has been in the works for over a year

By Geralyn Wichers May 25, 2022

As Manitobans ride a pendulum swing from too little to too much water, they await the province’s promised comprehensive water strategy — the first update to the plan since the early 2000s. The volatile weather has made plain why it’s needed. “We’re seeing an increase in variability,” said Dimple Roy, director of water management with

Riparian buffer zones might be attractive from a simplicity perspective, but they’ll need to be just part of the run-off solution.

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An unfiltered take on riparian areas

Buffer zones aren’t a silver bullet for managing and treating field run-off

By Alexis Stockford January 24, 2022

Brandon University environmental science researcher Alex Koiter is a fan of riparian areas for a lot of reasons. They help prevent stream bank erosion. They’re hot spots for biodiversity and provide corridors for wildlife to move. They have a role in flood management. But if agriculture is looking for a solution on nutrient run-off, he

Sean Murphy raises cattle on about 2,500 acres near Souris.

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Souris rancher takes on massive water-retention project

Sean Murphy’s farm was ‘defensively drained’ in the 1970s. Fifty-some years later, he’s damming it back up

By Geralyn Wichers November 10, 2021

A Souris-area rancher is turning a chunk of his land back into a marsh after fifty-some years, in a record-breaking project for Ducks Unlimited. “It should be holding water,” said Sean Murphy of the land — currently bone dry and shorn for hay after a summer of drought. Murphy runs cattle on about 2,500 acres

Manitoba often thinks of itself as having ample — and frequently excess — water. But in coming years, conservation will be important too.

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Water efficiency, climate adaptation not optional for Manitoba: IISD

The province asks for the public for feedback on what to include in its new water strategy

By Geralyn Wichers August 4, 2021

Despite its thousand lakes, Manitoba needs to plan to use its water more efficiently as it develops a new water management strategy, says the International Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD). “We’ve always thought of ourselves as a water-rich jurisdiction,” said Dimple Roy, IISD’s director of water management. In May, the province announced up to $1

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Beavers unlikely inspiration in drought mitigation

‘Biomimicry’ brought the Coen farm back from the edge of a water disaster

By Geralyn Wichers March 9, 2021

If you look closely at a Coen family photograph taken over 100 years ago, you’ll spot a well in the back corner of the picture. It’s hand-dug, about 20 feet deep — all it took to find drinkable water in 1914. Today, the farm’s wells are 180 feet deep. Takota Coen told his audience at

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KAP wants drainage regs changed to encourage on-farm storage

One farmer says he is successfully using excess water to irrigate crops instead of pushing downstream on others

By Allan Dawson February 25, 2019

The Manitoba government promotes water retention on farmland, yet has policies that seem to discourage innovative and economic ways to do it, Deloraine farmer Kelsey Sunaert said during the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ 35th annual meeting in Winnipeg Feb. 5. Farmers like him, who want to consolidate water bodies on their own land and keep it

Crop irrigation in the U.S. withdraws 118 billion gals. of water daily while its livestock sector uses an additional two billion gals. a day.

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Comment: Brother, can you spare a cup of water?

Agriculture is a very thirsty industry and that could spell trouble

By Alan Guebert December 5, 2018

Humanity depends on three critical threes: Without oxygen, most humans will die within three minutes; without water, life expectancy is three days; without food, we’ve got three weeks. Few here give three seconds of thought of any of these life-ensuring elements because, here, food is safe and plentiful, air quality laws are in place and

A small sign in the foyer of the Riverside Holiday Inn in Minot, North Dakota reminds visitors how high the water reached in 2011 when the Souris River flooded to its highest levels since at least 1881.

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International Souris River Study Board seeks public input

Study board aims to recommend ways to reduce flood risk along the 700-km river

By Lorraine Stevenson March 2, 2018

An upcoming study will make recommendations on how to reduce flood risks along the Souris River. That’s the goal of the International Souris River Study Board (ISRSB) which, over the next two years, will look at different options for improving the 1989 international agreement between Canada and the U.S. Its efforts aim to improve the

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No such thing as ‘unprecedented’ weather, delegates at ARBI conference told

Delegates with the Assiniboine River Basin Initiative (ARBI) met in Regina February 14 and 15

By Lorraine Stevenson February 23, 2018

If 1930s seems like the worst drought we could ever have, scientific records show pre-settlement dry spells lasted far longer. Likewise, there were wet spells on the Prairies much more intense than events like 2011’s — a flood we tended to call “unprecedented.” Neither are unprecedented, say Saskatchewan scientists. Both extremes have occurred before on

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FCC forecasts rocky financial year, points to waning confidence, vCOOL, interest rates

GIWA trims Western Australian crop forecasts, still predicts record harvest

U.S. grains: Corn and wheat futures firm on brisk exports, softer dollar

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