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To: Dale Baker who wrote (23013)	7/6/2006 4:22:20 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 541403

Another water issue: rapidly expanding ethanol production is consuming too much water... A thirsty fuel: With several plants coming, Minnesota could quadruple its ethanol output. But producing the alternative fuel requires a lot of water — not always available in the corn-rich southern part of the state. BY DENNIS LIEN Pioneer Press Open less than a year, the Granite Falls, Minn., ethanol plant already is looking for help to quench its thirst for water. So far, it has been pulling all it needs from an underground aquifer. But with supply dwindling, the plant wants to pipe its water from the nearby Minnesota River. That the Granite Falls Energy plant could run short of groundwater so soon illustrates a problem faced by a flurry of new and proposed ethanol plants that could quadruple annual ethanol production in Minnesota. Most have been built or are being proposed for south-central and southwestern Minnesota. While rich in the corn used to make the clean-burning, alternative fuel, those areas are short on another key ingredient — water. Moreover, that water isn't evenly distributed. [more] twincities.com

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