Featured ARTICLES
23 COVID-19 and Groundwater
By Thad Plumley
Industry professionals had to adjust but
continued to provide water when the
pandemic arrived.
28 Innovations in Irrigation
By Lana McGee Straub
The Irrigation Innovation Consortium is
bringing the future of irrigation to us.
32
Water Well Journal Q&A
John Farner, NGWA Federal Affairs Director
By Thad Plumley
Association professional talks ground-
water, irrigation, and government policy.
34 Three Fields of Science That Can
Influence the Life Cycle of a
Water Well
By Roger Miller
Part II: Chemistry
39 Creating Repeat Business
By Brant Shiefler
Don't be the guy who doesn't retain
customers.
May 2020
Vol. 74, No. 5
waterwelljournal.com
About the cover: A soybean field in Sioux City, Iowa,
served as a recent jobsite for Siouxland Well Co. The crew used
a SIMCO model 7000 with a large Gardner Denver mud pump
mounted onto the rig. Siouxland Well is located in Dakota City,
Nebraska. Its owner, Dennis Walsh, is a licensed water well driller
in Iowa and Nebraska and the vice president of the Nebraska
On-Site Waste Water Association. He works with his son D.J. Walsh.
Photo courtesy Darren Swolley, SIMCO Drilling Equipment Inc.
2 n May 2020 WWJ
