Forum Communications takes a hard look at regional water issues
Dear readers, Forum Communications Co. is pleased to present “Living with Water.” This five-part series focuses on water issues concerning the Northern Plains. This series runs each Sunday through Feb. 26 in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, the Grand Forks Herald, Jamestown Sun and Dickinson Press, all in North Dakota, The Daily Republic in Mitchell, S.D., and Detroit Lakes Newspapers in Minnesota. The company’s North Dakota broadcasting outlets in Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot and Bismarck will...
Read MoreSection 1: Water Where We Live
Forum Communications Co. is pleased to present “Living with Water.” This five-part series focuses on water issues concerning the Northern Plains. Join us for the first section: Water Where We Live
Read MoreGroundwater: The invisible water that sustains us
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – With no furious flow or crashing waves, it is easy to be unaware of one of the state’s greatest water reservoirs. Groundwater is one of North Dakota’s most valuable resources. More than 60 percent of North Dakotans depend on groundwater for one purpose or another – municipal and rural water systems, irrigation, livestock and industrial purposes. Water underlies land across the entire surface of North Dakota throughout 185 designated reserves, as well as some that...
Read MoreThe Red: A Young And Restless River
BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. – If you didn’t know the Red River was born here, you might well miss it. In midsummer, the confluence of the Otter Tail and Bois de Sioux rivers is a placid affair, wrapped around an equally placid park and threatening to no one. In the absence of their annual deluge of spring melt, the two rivers are so plodding that it is a wonder they manage to meet at all. But meet they do and slowly but surely begin a long journey north. The road map for that journey was laid out...
Read MoreHome on our own overflowing Sheyenne
The Sheyenne River has etched its identity on North Dakota’s landscape across several millennia. It has been a torrential surge, boring into the earth, feeding on rain and snow. Or a quivering trickle, thirsting amid a deserted riverbed. These days, the state of the Sheyenne is akin to most other North Dakota waterways: too much water for far too long. Much like the Red River Valley, the Sheyenne Basin was defined over centuries from advancing and retreating glaciers that once buried...
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