<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "></span></p><p style="margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; ">St. Paul, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is trying to improve the way it manages the state's underground water supply.</p><p style="margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; ">Cities, industries and farms are all using more water. State scientists have found evidence that pumping too much water from underground is damaging lakes, streams and wetlands, particularly during summer, said Andrew Streitz, a hydrologist at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.</p><p style="margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; ">"We're a water rich state, and I think for the first time we're bumping up against limits to what we thought of as a limitless resource," said Streitz, who studies the interaction between groundwater and surface water. <a href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/10/05/increasing-water-use-prompts-dnr/" title="Increasing water use prompts DNR to test local groundwater management">More</a> (Source: Minnesota Public Radio)</p><p>&nbsp;</p>