I write this column on Dec. 1, a few days before the 2023 Groundwater Week event in Las Vegas. If you attended this National Ground Water Association (NGWA) event, you will probably be home and back to work by now. If you did not attend, you will be reading about it in the trade magazines. This being the 75th convention, I would very much have liked to attend but family matters and mobility issues kept me home.
Today’s column focuses on some events from the past that I remember fondly. It is interesting to note that Groundwater Week started out as the convention of the then-National Water Well Association (NWWA), that being an earlier name for the NGWA. Some years later, the event became the Expo and now we call it Groundwater Week. For simplicity, I’ll simply call it the convention, which is what it will always be to me.