The new water wars: on the Missouri and rivers further east, dying industries control the flow and leave emerging businesses high and dry.

From: Washington Monthly | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Lambrecht, Bill | Copyright information

Bob Shadwell, the proprietor of the Point of View Lodge in Pollock, S.D., and a professional fisherman, is in the habit of sending emails to the White House on Monday mornings. He is not sure if they are ever read, and, if they are, they have certainly not yet turned up much in the way of response, but they are remarkable for their singularity of focus. Shadwell's obsession matches that of his customers, and indeed that of folks I met throughout the drought-prone Dakotas. He wants ...

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