Summary
As the Lake Winnipeg Stewardship Board's final report earlier this year showed, Manitoba at once has a huge job ahead of it and an equally huge lack of data upon which to launch it. Manitoba doesn't even have a hydrologist capable of modelling how water works in the province. Practices that many thought could be imported from other jurisdictions and copied here are being found to be unsuitable. Zero tillage, for example, a great technique for preventing erosion and phosphate loading in wet, hilly environments, is now suspected of increasing phosphate loading on the flat dry plains. A recent study by scientists at Pinawa found that "vegetative buffer zones" heralded as a great way to prevent phosphorus from finding its way into streams and rivers has relatively little impact in Manitoba, and yet it is a measure the government encourages.
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Editorial - All Wet On Water
THERE was much gnashing of teeth over the dearth of money to save Lake Winnipeg when the budget was tabled last week. Maybe too much.
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