Summary/Goals: That primary focus will be societal attitudes toward our water resources, how these produce different outcome when they are implemented on the natural system, how improved scientific understanding of the system can help society to make better choices, and how incomplete scientific understanding can be applied and backfire. The book will wrap up by exploring the implications of our new understandings of the natural system and the perspective gained from the examination of societal perspectives to make suggestions for enhancing the prospect of future sustainability under our society.
Activities and outcomes during past year:
Considerable progress was made in 2008, with preliminary drafts, at a minimum, completed for chapters I-IX. In-person full-day meetings were held twice in 2008 for planning and discussion. Work began on identifying graphics and photographs to accompany the text, with many pertinent photos identified from collections in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Artist and computer renderings of some of the geologic phases of the Rio Grande Valley were completed.
Plans for the upcoming year:
Conference calls, writing, and editing will proceed and wrap up. An agreement will be sought with a publisher. The co-authors will meet again next in March 2009 for more planning and discussion.
