SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Future water needs received a boost this week when an upstart water project, Dakota Mainstem, received millions of dollars to study the possibility of providing more water to communities in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, northwestern Iowa, and northeastern Nebraska.
This week, Dakota Mainstem was granted a $4.2 million contract after receiving congressional approval. Dakota Mainstem executive director Kurt Pfeifle said the feasibility study will examine how areas sensitive to drought will get water in the future.
“If you wait until there’s a crisis, you’re already too late, because these things are years, if not decades, of development,” he told KELOLAND News…