Claire Carlson
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Minnesota private well owners are largely on their own when it comes to arsenic (opens the original)
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The Minnesota Section of the American Water Works Association generously supports MinnPost's drinking water coverage. A naturally-occurring but toxic chemical is prolific in Minnesota’s private drinking water wells, and most people don’t even know it’s there. Arsenic, a chemical that forms in rocks and was deposited in Minnesota by moving glaciers during the last ice age – some 14,000 years ago – has been found in nearly half of new wells built since 2008, according to a Minnesota Department of
What’s a fen? This rare wetland is why southeastern Minnesota can’t endlessly pump groundwater (opens the original)
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The Minnesota Section of the American Water Works Association generously supports MinnPost's drinking water coverage. We met Keylor Andrews on the side of a dirt road just outside of Rochester. The air was sticky with late summer humidity as we donned rubber boots and baseball caps, preparing ourselves to bushwack through the marshy field just off the road. Andrews is an employee with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and holds one of their most unique job titles: calcareous fen coor
Rochester’s rapid growth is outpacing its water supply — and surfacing tough questions in a state ‘spoiled’ by abundant water (opens the original)
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The Minnesota Section of the American Water Works Association generously supports MinnPost's drinking water coverage. For over a century, the city of Rochester has pumped its drinking water supply from the Jordan aquifer — a massive, sponge-like underground formation spanning seven states, including the southeastern part of Minnesota. As its population has grown, the city’s municipal utility has kept pace with demand by drilling new groundwater wells; about 30 of them now poke down into the aqui
And the blue ribbon for best tap water in Minnesota goes to… (opens the original)
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The Minnesota Section of the American Water Works Association generously supports MinnPost's drinking water coverage. On the first day of the Minnesota State Fair, glass jugs filled with tap water lined a folding table in a quiet corner of the otherwise packed Eco Experience building. Representatives from 22 cities across the state — from St. Peter to St. Cloud — crowded around the table to pour the water into blue and gray cups and pass them to fair attendees who happened across the event: a ta
Minnesota agencies planning ahead for changes to state’s water supply (opens the original)
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The Minnesota Section of the American Water Works Association generously supports MinnPost's drinking water coverage. How will Minnesota’s waters change by 2100? And what impact will the changes have on the state’s economy? Minnesota Management and Budget’s long-range planning team is creating a 75-year forecasting project to find out. Major factors impacting the state’s water include climate change, water-intensive industry development like data centers and agriculture, population growth and la
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