Richard Rathe<p>Great article about <a href="https://c.im/tags/BigAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigAg</span></a>...</p><p><a href="https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/seeing-red" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">riverraccoon.substack.com/p/se</span><span class="invisible">eing-red</span></a></p><p>"Water from the <a href="https://c.im/tags/RedRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RedRiver</span></a> flows through <a href="https://c.im/tags/LakeWinnipeg" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LakeWinnipeg</span></a> on its journey to <a href="https://c.im/tags/HudsonBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HudsonBay</span></a>. Lake Winnipeg is huge—the world’s 11th largest freshwater lake by surface area (even larger than Lake Ontario and about the same as Lake Erie) and has the world’s largest ‘lakeshed’, i.e. area of land draining to a lake. It supports a large commercial and sport fishery for several fish species including walleye, which are a peculiar green color there due to the mineral content of the water."</p><p>"The <a href="https://c.im/tags/water_quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>water_quality</span></a> in Lake Winnipeg is tanking because of “rapidly increased <a href="https://c.im/tags/livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>livestock</span></a> production and use of synthetic <a href="https://c.im/tags/fertilizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fertilizer</span></a> in the Red River Valley, with smaller contributions of phosphorus from the city of Winnipeg and other human development in the Red and Winnipeg River basins .” Nutrient-driven <a href="https://c.im/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>toxic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/algae" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>algae</span></a> blooms have doubled in size since the 1990s due to increases in Red River phosphorus levels, a common component of livestock manure."</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Money" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Money</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Regulations</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BigAgriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigAgriculture</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>