Robert Jerome Glennon - Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of Americas Fresh Waters

Having written this book gives me the opportunity to thank friends, colleagues, and even perfect strangers who provided assistance. Their generosity, enthusiasm, and encouragement has been remarkable. I must begin with my good friend and sometimes coauthor, Thomas Maddock III, who is not only an extraordinarily gifted hydrologist but also a dedicated environmentalist. Tom believes that good science can and must inform public policy decisions. Through this entire project, he has generously and patiently helped me to improve my understanding of hydrology.

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law is an especially supportive environment. Jim Rogers recent generosity opens new possibilities for collaborative, interdisciplinary work. My students and colleagues in the College of Law and elsewhere on campus, particularly in hydrology and economics, have nurtured this project by challenging me to think more clearly about its scope and consequences. In researching this book, I had the help of Peter Culp, College of Law class of 2001, who provided preliminary research on gold mining in Nevada and American consumers fascination with bottled water. Rick Yarde, College of Law class of 2000, undertook initial research on Tampa Bay, the Black Mesa pipeline, and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Compact. I was fortunate to have the assistance of Peter Ghishan, College of Law class of 2002, in formatting and cite checking the Bibliography section. Mike Chiorazzi, director of the law library, has assembled a remarkable staff, especially Maureen Garmon, who graciously tracked down every request that I made for even the most obscure report. I enjoyed fantastic word processing services provided by Joni Coble, Kathy DAssis, Carol Denis, Miriam Hochlaf, Norma Kelly, Davon May, Patricia Sesma, and Madeleine Sherman. I am especially grateful to Sandy Davis, who labored long and hard on innumerable drafts and revisions.

I could not have written this book without enormous help from hundreds of people who granted me interviews, provided reports, studies, or photographs, suggested leads for further investigations, or bolstered my flagging energy with a comment such as: Its a great topic. Im so glad youre tackling it. For granting me interviews, I especially want to thank Brad Ack, Katherine Andrews, Dave Armstrong, Sydney Bacchus, Ed Baum, Dave Bell, Ted Beutel, Nancy Boatwright, Dick Bogart, Layne Bolen, Steve Born, Janette Brimmer, Dave Brooks, Susan Butler, Brad Caswell, Gilliam Clarke, Russ Cohen, Jock Conyngham, Tom De Paolo, Hiram Drache, Chuck DuMars, Mike Eaton, Lee Edmiston, Elwood Engle, Paul Firmani, Jay Fishman, Jan Fleckenstein, Graham Fogg, Kathy Fry, Bill Furbish, Grady Gammage, Jr., John Gardner, Vicki Gartland, Paul Hardy, Jim Hook, Terry Hudgins, John Hunt, Bill Kahrl, David Keeley, George Kraft, Jim Krohelski, Jim Kundell, Lealdon Langley, Andy Laurenzi, Diana Lefler, Steve Leitman, Duane LeVangie, Graham Lewis, Helen Light, Judith Light, Skip Livingston, Alan MacIntosh, Kerry Mackin, Tom Maddock, David Marlow, Bob Marvinney, Vernon Masayesva, Ruth Mathews, Ann Mesrobian, George Michaels, Woody Miley, Glenn Miller, Larry Monico, Anne Monnelly, Steve Monsees, Lynn Morgan, Jeff Mount, Peter Moyle, Tom Myers, Paul Nickerson, Al Niebur, Tom Nigus, Jim Olson, Fred Palmer, Kirk Patterson, Martin Pillsbury, Russ Plume, Stanley Pollock, Dale Pontius, Carolyn Raffensperger, Honey Rand, Todd Rasmussen, Jeff Reardon, Sid Reynolds, Brian Richter, Holly Richter, Stephan Rogers, Mary Jane Schmudlach, Matt Scott, Chris Sewell, Mark Smith, David Smolker, Jim Stark, Jon Steinhaus, John Stine, Lee Storey, Beth Sutton, Bill Swan, Ramona Swenson, Terry Swier, Fife Symington, Rich Tomczyk, Lynn Torak, Sarah Tufford, Lou Wagner, Tommy Ward, Jim Williams, John Williams, Terri Wolfe, Phil Zarriello, Jerry Ziewitz, and Bob Zimmerman.

Many people, too numerous to list, supplied information or suggested new avenues of inquiry. For special thanks, I would like to single out Emilie Cademartori, Roger Congdon, Raymond Dougan, Jim Hook, Daniele Lantagne, Bob MacNish, Linda Stitzer, Charlie Sugnet, Jeff Tannler, and Barbara Tellman.

I am extremely grateful to Mark Anderson, Brian Gray, Eric Handler, Kerry Mackin, Tom Myers, Suzanne Rabe, Sarah Van de Wetering, and Todd Votteler, who offered comments and suggestions on drafts of particular chapters, and to Kendra Gaines, Stephen Golden, and Martha Whitaker, who critiqued the entire manuscript. Martha also drew on her background in hydrology to help me with the glossary. A final reader, Ben Smith, was extraordinarily generous, drawing on experience as a copy editor. His remarkable sense of diction and syntax saved the manuscript from innumerable syntactical infelicities. He would have red-lined this last sentence had I shown it to him first.

I owe a special debt to the staffs of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and The Nature Conservancy. The USGS, the arm of the federal government charged with conducting research on the nations water resources, employs an incredible number of able and dedicated scientists who have produced absolutely first-rate studies of many watersheds throughout the country. As noted in the Bibliography section, I have drawn on this remarkable body of scholarship. Many of my illustrations and photographs originally appeared in USGS publications; for permission to reuse them I am extremely grateful. The real credit for the artwork goes to John Callahan, who tailored the originals to suit my purposes and created the maps for each story. The USGS recently changed its motto to Science for a Changing World, a slogan that would have pleased its most famous director, John Wesley Powell. As for The Nature Conservancy, that organization deserves the nations thanks for its sustained program of conservation. Since 1951, this privately funded, nonprofit organization has played a remarkable role in identifying sensitive lands and habitats that need protection and then figuring out some way to safeguard them. The Conservancys strategy, which has emphasized the acquisition and management of key parcels of land, has resulted in protection of more than ten million acres in the United States and Canada. In my research, I received aid and suggestions from Conservancy employees too numerous to thank individually, but I want generally to acknowledge the Conservancy Freshwater Initiative Strategy Team, chaired by Brian Richter.

I received financial help from a number of sources along the way. I particularly want to acknowledge Deans Joel Seligman and Toni M. Massaro of the James E. Rogers College of Law at The University of Arizona for summer research grants that freed up my time to research and write. I benefited from the Ashby Lohse Fund at the college. I also received support from the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at The University of Arizona, thanks to the encouragement of its associate director, Bob Varady. Finally, I am a principal investigator on a project funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that allowed me to investigate the issues surrounding the San Pedro River.

Jolie Sibert and Joe Barbato introduced me to Deborah Grosvenor, who would become my agent. Deborah told me immediately that this book belonged at Island Press. Charles Wilkinson and Don Falk sang the praises of Island Presss Barbara Dean who, in turn, linked me up with my editor, Todd Baldwin. Todds genuine interest in my project rekindled my enthusiasm at a most propitious time, and his aesthetic sensibility generated the title and helped me to reorient several chapters. From an authors perspective, Todd is a dream editor. He treated each of my obsessive concerns as though they were normal human worries. Others at Island Press were very helpful, especially Jonathan Cobb and Amelia Durand. The production process went smoothly, thanks to Cecilia Gonzlez, Chace Caven, Brighid Willson, and Sherri Schultz. Joy Drohan did a splendid job as my copy editor.