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I am always tickled pink to see articles about my obscure neck of the woods in the media. Especially in the international media. So I was finally skimming the Economist yesterday, and I came across a neat article about water back home. I disagree with characterizing East River as the dry west. In fact, that area has access to quite a few aquifers (if I remember the section in my hydro book, apparently SoDak has some classic aquifers). In contrast to western Kansas's water wars with Colorado, the problem comes the amount of stuff that has gotten into the water. And they don't even bring up ethanol plants.

So comments?

Another aspect is realizing how much the Economist skims over in their articles. It makes me wonder what details I'm missing in their other articles about places I know nothing about.

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[(Anonymous)]

it's not just the eastern side of the state that is dealing with water issues. since the corps of enigineers released water from the dams to help st. louis' barge traffic (insubstantial, especially this time of year), all of the lakes, resiviors and bodies of water dependant upon the missouri river have been drying up. these lowered water levels automatically lend to the water being more polluted. anywho, this rant isn't exactly related, but we just talked about this in one of my classes, so there you have it. the late-night ramblings of a tired biscuit.