| Contents | |
|---|---|
| AUTHOR'S NOTE | 1 |
| YOU, ME, AND WATER | 4 |
| 1. Water | 4 |
| 2. Water Properties | 5 |
| 3. Water and Man | 6 |
| 4. Water and Politics | 8 |
| 5. Water's Imperfection | 9 |
| FINDING WATER | 11 |
| 6. Hydrological Cycle | 11 |
| 7. Surface Water | 13 |
| 8. Ground Water | 14 |
| 9. Dowsers | 19 |
| 10. Clues | 23 |
| 11. Runoff Catchment | 25 |
| 12. Ponds and Lakes | 25 |
| 13. Springs | 28 |
| 14. Wells | 32 |
| GETTING WATER | 31 |
| 15. Catchment Areas | 36 |
| 16. Streams - Infiltration Galleries | 38 |
| 17. Ponds | 38 |
| 18. Irrigation Water | 45 |
| 19. Springs | 45 |
| 20. Wells | 50 |
| 21. Well Contractors | 53 |
| 22. Location | 53 |
| 23. Cone of Depression | 56 |
| 24. Radius of Influence | 56 |
| 25. Dug Wells | 57 |
| 26. Bored Wells | 58 |
| 27. Jetted or Washed Wells | 58 |
| 28. Driven Wells | 59 |
| 29. Drilled Wells | 60 |
| 30. Calculating Needs | 63 |
| 31. Determining Yield | 65 |
| 32. Peak Demands | 66 |
| 33. Measuring Well Capacity | 67 |
| 34. Suction | 70 |
| 35. Pressure and Head | 71 |
| 36. Flow | 72 |
| 37. Total Lift | 72 |
| 38. Piston Pumps | 74 |
| 39. Centrifugal Pumps | 77 |
| 40. Turbine and Helical Pumps | 78 |
| 41. Jet (Ejector) Pumps | 78 |
| 42. Submersible Pumps | 80 |
| 43. Pump Selection | 81 |
| 44. Pump Sizing | 85 |
| 45. Casings | 86 |
| 46. Offsets | 87 |
| 47. Pitless Adapters | 88 |
| 48. Ponds | 93 |
| 49. Individual Reservoirs | 96 |
| 50. Cisterns | 98 |
| 51. Spring Protection | 100 |
| 52. Well Development and Redevelopment | 100 |
| 53. Hydro-Pneumatic Storage | 101 |
| 54. Plain Steel Pressure Tanks | 103 |
| 55. Diaphragm Bladder Tanks | 104 |
| 56. Elastic Pressure Cells and Tankless Pressure Controls | 105 |
| 57. Freeze Protection | 107 |
| 58. Sources of Contamination | 108 |
| 59. Sampling and Testing | 111 |
| 60. Iron and Manganese | 113 |
| 61. Hardress | 116 |
| 62. Microorganisms and Other Organisms | 119 |
| 63. Turbidity | 119 |
| 64. Tastes and Odors | 122 |
| 65. pH | 125 |
| 66. Gases | 127 |
| 67. Heavy Metals and Other Chemical Pollutants | 128 |
| 68. Nitrate | 130 |
| 69. Reverse Osmosis | 131 |
| 70. Filters | 132 |
| 71. Chlorinization and Superchlorinization | 133 |
| 72. Pasteurization | 137 |
| 73. Ultraviolet Light | 139 |
| 74. Ozonization | 140 |
| 75. Silver Treatment | 141 |
| 76. Iodination | 141 |
| 77. Plans and Diagrams | 146 |
| 78. Protecting Outdoor Plumbing | 150 |
| 79. Tubing Selection | 152 |
| 80. Head Loss | 154 |
| 81. Pipe Sizing | 156 |
| 82. Measuring, Cutting, and Joining Pipe | 157 |
| 83. Fittings, Adapters, and Booster Pumps | 162 |
| 84. Fixture Hook-Up | 165 |
| CONTROLLING WATER | 169 |
| 85. Wiring | 169 |
| 86. Routine Repairs and Maintenance | 171 |
| 87. Foot Valves, Check Valves, and Flow Control Valves | 174 |
| 88. Noise Control | 175 |
| 89. Pressure Switches and Flow Switches | 176 |
| 90. Low-Water Cutoffs, Low-Flow and Low-Pressure Switches | 178 |
| 91. Air-Volume Controls | 179 |
| 92. Pressure-Relief Valves and Gauges | 185 |
| 93. Lightning Surge Protection | 185 |
| 94. Overload Controls | 188 |
| PROTECTING AND CONSERVING WATER | 189 |
| 95. Community Systems | 189 |
| 96. Water Rights | 191 |
| 97. Water Loss | 195 |
| 98. Restrictions | 198 |
| 99. Water-Saving Devices and Recycling | 199 |
| 100. Drought Gardening and Irrigation | 205 |
| 101. Emergency Water | 209 |
| 102. Population and Drought | 211 |
| 103. Water and Dollars | 214 |
| 104. Pollution | 216 |
| 105. Old Ideas and New | 218 |
| 106. Down the Road | 22l |
| APPENDIXES | 225 |
| State Agencies That Provide Water-Sampling Services | 225 |
| Metric Conversions | 228 |
| SI Unit Prefixes | 229 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 230 |
| INDEX | 232 |
