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  • Quest to save groundwater aims at love for lush, green lawns

    July 10, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    New technology, more aggressive pricing structures, and shifting attitudes are beginning to change how some Minnesotans view and care for their lawns.

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  • State officials promise tougher approach on nitrates contaminating groundwater

    July 07, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Worthington, Minnesota

    Minnesota farmers are closely following the debate over how best to manage nitrates. Many farmers—no one knows the number exactly–are already taking action to lower their use of nitrates, which can contaminate water.

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  • Golf courses start to reuse stormwater to keep grass green

    June 05, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Woodbury, Minnesota

    A few communities are using stormwater to keep golf courses, baseball and soccer fields green or to irrigate public landscapes.

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  • Rain Man: How one Tucson resident harvests the rain

    May 29, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Some Tucson residents have begun looking at water as a crop, something to harvest to lessen the reliance of Tucson's burgeoning population on water sucked from the ground and imported from the Colorado River.

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  • What Minnesota can learn from Arizona about water

    May 27, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson, AZ, adopted measures, such as limiting new wells and making water rights sellable, that have slashed per capita water consumption by 35 percent. It is now considered a national leader in water conservation and perhaps has lessons for Minnesota as it grapples with its own groundwater shortages.

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  • Desert city uses water, then uses it again

    May 27, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson has slashed its per capita water consumption by more than a third, and one of the more startling ways it's done that is by reusing water after it's flushed down the toilet or run through a washing machine.

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  • Tucson's water ethic: Blueprint for Minnesota?

    May 27, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Forty years ago, Tuscon faced a water crisis. Now, even after decades of population and economic growth, water consumption has been declining and, under much of the city, groundwater levels have been rising, due in equal parts to regulatory, financial, and cultural shifts.

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  • A first in Minnesota, cities launch system to treat, stash water underground

    April 16, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Michael, Minnesota

    Capturing water during times of plenty, storing it underground, and pulling it out later when it's needed—it's a strategy used in the western and southeastern parts of the country, and now, for the first time, in Minnesota.

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  • From fish to pipes, Minnesota firms see opportunity in growing water challenge

    April 14, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    Creating an indoor aquaculture operation in an old brewery is, oddly enough, using surprisingly little water.

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  • Even in region with abundant water, residents turn to bottles and try to conserve

    March 20, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Fountain, Minnesota

    Some communities are being forced to take steps—sometimes costly ones, like digging deeper wells—to both tap and protect their groundwater.

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