
Flooded road
Next week on June 20 the Lake Winnipeg Foundation, along with Ducks Unlimited, The Manitoba Conservation Districts Association and the Manitoba Eco-Network , are hosting our second workshop called Keeping Water on the Land. Its all about how we need to slow down the flow of water off our landscapes during spring melts, and big rainstorms. Why? Because with all the drainage of wetlands that has occurred over the past few decades, we are facilitating more flooding downstream, carrying more phosphorus off the land into our lakes and losing all that valuable water during times of drought. We’re working hard to get more awareness built amongst Manitobans so that we can encourage our governments to invest in protecting wetlands, restoring some wetlands and building on-farm water retention ponds. Another way of describing it is investing in rebuilding “natural infrastructure”.
So I hope we can encourage many people to attend our Keeping Water on the Land workshop on June 20 – registration and more details are available at Manitoba Water Caucus. If you’re interested in helping Lake Winnipeg or just want to make sure that you don’t have to pay huge flood disaster bills out of our tax dollars, this is the workshop to come to!
Do you know that farmers get federal tax break for clearing their land? I live on the escarpment and these guys are now stripping forest on the top of hills.
By: Ruralman on January 15, 2014
at 8:49 am
No I did not know that and I will have to look into it. Doesn’t make sense, knowing what we now know about drainage contributing to flooding and water quality problems. So the federal govt. may be subsiding something that ultimately costs them due to flood damage.
By: Vicki Burns on January 15, 2014
at 10:34 am