Widowed, broke, and adrift, farmer Fred Stern finds a new purpose in life when he learns that a multi-national oil company has been polluting his water. But as his crusade against the posers that spill out of the courtroom and into his personal life, Fred must find a way to avoid the ruin of his farm, his family, and his dreams. It pulls back the curtain on the culture of greed that poisons Corporate America, from sea to polluted sea.

"This book--the first ethnography of water conservation on the Great Plains--provides an account of High Plains aquifer decline through an exploration of the different ways in which heartland residents inhabit and understand the imminent depletion of groundwater. This literary ethnography offers a vividly sketched look into the lives and stories of this community, based on interviews with members of the community such as fellow farmers and state regulators,...

Discusses the importance of watersheds and what can be done to keep Earth's groundwater sources clean and safe.

The ground-water resources of the White River basin in Hamilton and Tipton Counties were investigated by first collecting driller logs, ground-water levels, streamflow measurements, and pumping data. These data were used to map five confined sand and gravel aquifers interbedded in till, a bedrock aquifer, and a unconfined outwash aquifer.