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Subject: Contributions Sought for Encyclopedia of Water

FYI.

Wil Burns, Senior Associate
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security
654 13th St.
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Phone: 510.251.1600
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-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Jones [mailto:cajones@tamu.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 6:31 AM
To: watertalk@twri.tamu.edu
Subject: The Encyclopedia of Water


We are pleased to report that the Water Resource Community around  the world has embraced out efforts to create an Encyclopedia of Water for John Wiley & Sons Publishers.  At this point in time, 21% of the 1400 entrees have been assigned to volunteer contributors.  We hope to double that coverage in the next six months and thus are once again requesting your assistance.  We would greatly appreciate your reminding your colleagues and graduate students of the opportunity to contribute to this four volume Encyclopedia of Water.  Each contributor will receive  a byline and an honorarium of John Wiley Books.

The following paragraphs of this letter fully explain the project.  We hope you will forward this E-Mail communication to all those individuals who you believe may be interested in participating.

Last August, Mc Graw - Hill published a 1700 page desk reference titled "The Standard Handbook of Environmental Science, Health and Technology" which my wife Janet and I edited.  During the process of our delivering the text to McGraw - Hill, an agent from John Wiley and Sons heard of our project and approached us with a proposal to assume the editorship of their four - volume work, The Encyclopedia of Water.  We accepted the offer and recommended that John Wiley and Sons Publishers cast the widest possible net into the water resource community in an effort to locate water professionals, educators and graduate students who would be interested in contributing one or more subject essays to this monumental work.

We believe that the Universities Council on Water Resources is the ideal organization to spread the word on this project.  With this in mind we contacted Duane Bauman and found him to be extremely enthusiastic.  He supplied us with the list of each schools primary representatives.

The entire project is described at http://www.wileywater.com. Here you will learn that the encyclopedia is divided into 14 categories relating to water. Currently there are about 1400 entries listed among the 14 categories. John Wiley & Sons will allow us up to 2100 entries, so we are not only looking for authors for the existing entrees, but also suggestions for entrees we have thus far overlooked.

Each entry may contain between 500 and 4000 words, with illustrations, and will list the name of the author. Each author will be to able choose $100.00 in books from Wiley catalogues for each entry they compose.

Requests to author an existing entry or suggest and author a new entry are to be made on line at www.wileywater.com.  Our web site administrator will respond to all requests and queries within 48 hours in most cases.  Once approved, authors will have six months to complete their entries.  The project will continue through 2003 and publication will be in 2004.  We have a team of editors led by Jack Keeley, Retired Chief of Groundwater Research at the USEPA Kerr Water Resource Research Laboratory in Ada, Oklahoma, who will finalize all entries.

Our primary purpose in writing to you at this time is in hopes that you will pass on the word about the project, or forward this letter to your colleagues on the faculty, as well as the graduate students in the various participating departments of the university.  We hope many of them will find this project worthy of their participation.

Thanks ever so much for any assistance you can offer in our efforts to inform the widest number of talented water scientists. Please feel free to simply send us a list of E-Mail addresses of colleagues you would like us to contact regarding this Encyclopedia of Water project.

Best wishes,
Jay Lehr
Editor
John Wiley & Sons
Encyclopedia of Water


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