Recently, I came across a booklet, or manual, produced by the Cow Creek Groundwater Conservation District in Kendall County that was published a few years ago and I was struck by the title, “Water: Yours, Mine and Ours,” because it conveys the idea that there is only one water and it belongs to all of us. One of the main ideas expressed in this booklet is that we need to establish a new “water culture”, one in which everyone considers water the precious resource that it is and acts ...