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THE MERCHANTS OF MENACE. How puppets in government and some in academe are helping corporate hog producers have their way in Manitoba, Canada. An E-book
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Are hungry kids a priority for the Harper government? by Larry Powell The forum (for the riding of Dauphin - Swan River - Neepawa) w...
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by Larry Powell Planet In Peril has sorted through some of the confusion surrounding the absence of Robert Sopuck, the Conservative M...
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Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture...
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It is too easy for many of us living in Canada to take our wonderful waters, our blood of life, for granted.
Reading the grim message of what we can expect,
(Save lake or live by 'open-air sewer',Wpg Free Press,24 Feb.) I must ask, "Has Lake Winnipeg gone beyond the tipping point, and now,is it too late to recover?"
Science has long identified the source of the problems with the Lake and many other Canadian lakes and waters experiencing massive
eutrophication. For more than 40 years, study after study, arrived at a consensus: over-fertilization of our fresh waters.
In 1974,co-author of "The Algal Bowl," scientist John R. Vallentyne predicted that we would be living with an environmental disaster he called the algal bowl by the year 2000. Just as the Dust Bowl of the
1930s was created by misusing western farmland,he forecast that continued misuse of lakes would lead to water degradation. To-day, waters suffer from our ignorance and denial. His predictions have
been realized.
Science tells us Lake recovery is costly and takes time. Having failed to heed the warnings,the most cost effective approach now is to reduce
inputs and wait for decades, for the symptoms of eutrophication to subside.
The old adage"a gram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure", fits Lake Winnipeg's algae problems perfectly. It is a hard lesson to learn.
It is clear that governments have ignored this basic principle of Water Stewardship for many years in the pursuit of narrow economic interests.
Lake Winnipeg has become a horrid reminder of devastation, that we are
leaving our children and their children to bear alone.
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