John Beusterien is a professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University. He has published widely in the environmental humanities and is developing Lubbock Waters, a museum to educate about the ecosystem of the Southern High Plains.Britta Anderson is an assistant professor of border studies and Latinx literature at Texas Tech University. She teaches courses on environmental justice and researches the social and environmental impacts of border militarization.

• IllustrationsTablesPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Science and Water LawChapter 1: Water Gaia: The Earth as Aquifer — Bruce ClarkeChapter 2: Water Sources on the Llano Estacado: A History of the Study of the Ogallala Formation — Joseph CepedaChapter 3: Groundwater Depletion and the Drying of Blackwater Draw — John E. StoutChapter 4: Addressing the Water Challenges of the Llano Estacado with New Sources — Balaji Rao, Karlo Rasporic, and Danny ReibleChapter 5: Adaptation to Redemption in the Texas High Plains — Amy HardbergerPart II: Archaeology and HistoryChapter 6: Water Diplomacy: Cross-Cultural Encounters on the High Plains Aquascapes during the Era of Early Contact   — John William NelsonChapter 7: Controlling Water, Controlling the Llano: Water, Violence, War, and Settler Colonialism in the Nineteenth-Century Llano Estacado — Joel ZapataChapter 8: Fossil Animals of the Llano Estacado and the Natural History of Water on the Southern Great Plains — John A. MorettiChapter 9: Lubbock's Water History — Jim Bertram, John Beusterien, and Eileen JohnsonPart III: Life WritingChapter 10: After the Fall: Three Land Recovery Practitioners on the Southern Plains — Darryl BirkenfeldChapter 11: Who Is Going to Save the Ogallala Aquifer from Depletion? Class Politics in Three Literary Texts — Ryan BrooksChapter 12: Natural Springs, Terminal Culture: An Elegy for Water on the Llano Estacado — Alex HuntChapter 13: Finding the Trail of Living Water: A Journey of 12,000 Years — Dolores Mosser, with Sammie Simpson, Eric Simpson, and Eileen MarthaPart IV: Music and the Visual ArtsChapter 14: The Thirsty Llano Estacado in a Ballad about a Legendary Cibolero — John Beusterien and Tim F. FosterChapter 15: M12 Studio's The Tap, or the Slow Drip of Aquifer Depletion — Kevin ChuaChapter 16: Process & Pedagogy: Visual Art and Mediations on the Ogallala Aquifer — Carol FlueckigerChapter 17: Corrido Vibrante/Vibrant Currents: A Visual Poetic Essay on the Llano Estacado — Jorge Hernández Camacho, Criseida Santos-Guevara, Mathilda ShepardLubbock Waters: A Conclusion and a Beginning — John BeusterienAcknowledgmentsBibliographyContributorsIndex