| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.4

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters. By Robert Jerome Glennon. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002. x + 314 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. Cloth $25.00.

Summarizing the status of groundwater in the United States challenges any writer: legal, social, and environmental conflicts abound. Claiming to present the only work on national groundwater, Glennon offers a lively set of essays centered on selected "water-rich" and "water-poor" areas of the nation. In so doing, he restates basic tenets of water historiography: water law and hydrology contradict one another in most instances; groundwater pumping causes declining water tables, mining of aquifers, subsidence, and degradation of surface waters; readily available technology changes how, and how often, people utilize groundwater; individual consumer choices result in collective environmental effects; and water follows money (even uphill). Water Follies provides the uninitiated with basic information about groundwater challenges in the United States in an engaging, fireside manner, and it includes some interesting "hooks" for linking water history to current events and everyday life.

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