Ripple Effect

The Red River Basin Commission Communications Committee has developed a series of articles to inform citizens on the land and water issues important to the Red River Basin. These are sent out weekly to Red River Basin newspapers.  Articles will address topics related to water quality, water supply, flooding, fish, and wildlife and outdoor recreation.

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WATER QUALITY

WATER SUPPLY

FLOOD DAMAGE REDUCTION

FISH, WILDLIFE AND OUTDOOR RECREATION

GENERAL

GENERAL

Don’t Use the Sewer as a Garbage Can

10 Things You Can do to Save Water Outside

What to do After Floodwaters Recede
 

Canoeing the Red River of the North

Intro to RRBC

What Watershed Do You Live In?

Reducing Sediment in the Red River

 9 Things You Can do to Save Water in the   Bathroom

Red River Basin Flooding

Remembering Our Tallgrass Prairie

Working Today for a Better Tomorrow

One Red River Basin

What are Nutrients in Waterways?
Why do they Turn into Pollutants?

Water Efficient Landscaping

Red River Jamming

Bringing Back the Birds

Whose Water Is It?

What is a Watershed?

You Can Help Reduce Nutrient Loading                  Problem in Waterways

From the Source to Your Glass

The 100-Year Flood...So Soon?

Wood Ducks in the Valley

Call to Action

Sharing Boundary Waters

Protect Your Health - Get the Lead Out!

Follow That Drop

Remembering the 1997 Flood

Endangered Fish

A Legacy of Cooperation in Water Planning

Demystifying Integrated Watershed Management

Paper or Plastic?

Lawn Drought Alert

Saving Flooded Trees

On Thin Ice

25 Facts About Water

Recognizing the Red

What’s the Green Slime in the Water?

Groundwater - An Important Resource

LIDAR: What Is It?

Wetlands Overview

Banning the Bag

What is a Conservation District?

Clean Water for All

Drought in the Red River Basin?

What Can LIDAR Do For You?

Goin’ to the Lake

Back-To-School Waste Reducing Tips

Common Misconceptions About Lawns

Preparing Farmland for Spring Erosion

What is an acquifer?

It’s Not Over Until It’s Over

Extinction -The Land of No Return

America Recycles

RRBC Summer Tour

Septic System Dynamics

 

Grasslands and Flood Reduction

Understanding Our Northern Plains Wetlands

Electronics Recycling

Shall We Gather at the River?

Too Much Phosphorus

 

 

Have you visited the prairie lately?

My Grandmother’s Garden

 

Fields and Streams of Dreams

Farmers Growing a Better Environment

 

 

 

The Power of One - The Power of Many

A Glaciologist’s View on Global Warming

Lake Winnipeg Needs Your Help

 

 

 

Whatever Happened to the Clover?

Can We Sustain All of our Lawns?

Measuring Our Waters

 

 

 

Recycling Electronics

Energy Conservation

Disinfecting Contaminated Wells

 

 

 

Saying Thanks for Water

Keeping Healthy With Water

Water and Plastic Don’t Mix

 

 

 

Planting Trees for Energy Conservation

Reducing Holiday Waste

Source Reduction Alternatives Around the House

 

 

 

Why the Preoccupation with Green?

What is Hydrology and What do Hydrologists Do?

True Green

 

 

 

Composting: As basic as
C,B, A

Using Used

Protecting Riverbanks

 

 

 

 

 

No Swimming Allowed