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David Vipond and other farmers near White Earth Reservation believe the Reservation Business Committee's water ordinance is an overreach. Tribal officials believe it asserts their sovereign rights.
White Earth Nation is implementing a series of pollution prevention and water conservation measures that challenge the orthodoxy of voluntary practices that have embraced for the last half century.