J Andrew Reid has been in the water business for more than 40 years. He holds one Canadian and three US patents for groundwater industry products and is currently President of Reid Plumbing Products LLC which manufactures and sells water well controls, systems and boosters in the USA and Canada. He has written articles on groundwater well systems and operation which have been published in the US, Canada, Asia and collaborated with two Faculty members of the, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia, on papers presented at Groundwater 2010 in Canberra, Australia.