Mississippi River mayors rally for a compact to protect the waterway
The Mississippi River is photographed from an airplane near Guttenberg, Iowa. The river is a little more than 2,300 miles long, making it the second longest river in North America. (Aerial support provided by Lighthawk/Courtesy Drake White-Bergey/Wisconsin Watch)
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“One of the first questions is going to be: if this water is essential to prosperity and growth, whose? Should it be those who dream about it in dry places, or those who are next to it?”
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This story is a product of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an editorially independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in partnership with Report For America and funded by the Walton Family Foundation.
Keely Brewer
Keely Brewer is a Report for America corps member covering environmental impacts on communities of color in Memphis. She is working in partnership with the Ag & Water Desk, a sustainable reporting network aimed at telling water and agriculture stories across the Mississippi River Basin.
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