Robert DeOtte West Texas A&M University Department of Engineering and Computer Science Canyon, USA Robert DeOtte is professor of civil and environmental engineering at West Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University working in the general area of fluid mechanics. He formerly served as Director of Hydrology at Tarleton State University and the Systems Agriculture Ph.D. program at WTAMU. While living and working in South Texas, he served on advisory boards for the Edwards Aquifer Authority. He has done research on the Ogallala Aquifer intermittently since 1975 and has several research projects dealing with issues of sustaining agriculture and rural economies as the non-renewable water resource is depleted.