Badwater

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank the following experts in their fields for information, education, reading the book, and giving me terrific suggestions and support: David Lochbaum, Marvin Resnikoff, Terry Fisk, Gregg Dempsey, John Thornton.

If there are factual or technical errors in BADWATER, they are mine alone.

Thanks to following for reading and commenting on my book, and for ongoing friendship and support: Lisa Brackmann, Marcia Talley, Patrick Price.

I want to thank Jack Barnes, Don Dwiggins, Russell Dwiggins, Dan Kolsrud, Del Roy, and Sue Worsley, for reading, for detailed suggestions, and for much-needed encouragement.

To Molly Williams, thanks for enthusiasm, support, and asking how it’s going.

To Emily Williams, thanks for reading and commenting and explaining to me that “playa” refers to a person who has enough “game” to be a major player in a group. Still, I like the geological definition—“a desert basin from which water evaporates quickly”—and I’m sticking to it.

To Chuck Williams, thanks for reading, formatting, supporting, being there, and a boatload of everything else.