\u201cThey might buy a quarter for $100,000 because it’s got, let’s say it’s got a 10-acre slough on it or a wetland,” she said..<\/p>\n
\u201cThey immediately drain it, let’s say onto me, and I bought my quarter for $100,000. Well, now their quarter’s worth $150,000 because they’ve got more croppable acres.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lowndes said if she were to try to sell her quarter, she would lose a significant amount of money due to the water sitting on her land.<\/p>\n
The provincial Water Security Agency (WSA) is currently offering up to $25,000 to farmers and landowners who are considering drainage projects, through the Agricultural Water Management Fund.<\/p>\n
The money is to help advance projects, including preparing drainage applications, assistance with project planning and acting as a liaison between landowners, according to the agency’s website.<\/p>\n
Kerri Finlay, a Canada Research Chair and director of the Institute for Environmental Change and Society at the University of Regina, is one of the lead authors of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey might buy a quarter for $100,000 because it’s got, let’s say it’s got a 10-acre slough on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,2848,6093,295,6092,11423,66],"class_list":["post-397811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-prairies","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}