Local view: Protect our clean water for now and the future
June 11, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Everyone in Minnesota relies on and expects clean water, but since 2001 safeguards for headwater streams and critical wetlands have been steadily eroded. These waters help recharge our aquifers; restrain floodwaters; and provide important fish, game and wildlife habitat. The ecosystem of Northeastern Minnesota, fed by these waters, also is an important driver of tourism, hunting and angling and the economic benefits they provide.
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Thank you. My concern for the future of the rulemaking is that it needs to follow the science. That is an increasingly tough task in DC these days.
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Rules follow law, and law follows political will, for better or worse. While science is hopefully the guide, voters have to step up and make certain that our elected officials support the nation’s future, not just its short term economic tempests, but its long term good. In the future, clean water is going to be more precious than anything – except perhaps phosphorus (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012151720.htm) Hopefully folks like Frank Jewell will be a voice to those in higher office to protect our state, our nation in the long term.
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