This summer's drought and the emerging environmental threats posed by global warming might underscore the need for a backup water source for Fargo and the Grand Cities, but the $1.22 billion plan to siphon water from the Missouri River into eastern North Dakota rivers predates both.
A journalist and an Indigenous rights activist weigh in recent court rulings against the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines and the scrapping of the Atlantic Coast pipeline.
For the first decade of the century, the Upper Missouri River Basin was the driest it's been in 1,200 years, even more parched than during the disastrous Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a new study says.
