several NRC committees. She is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, International Legal Materials, and Climate Change Digest, and was elected to membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, American Law Institute, and the International Council on Environmental Law. Her book, In Fairness to Future Generations , received the Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law in 1990. She received her A.B. from Stanford University, LL.B. from Harvard Law School, and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

DALE BUCKS is the National Program Leader for Water Quality and Water Management for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland. He is co-chair of the Research and Development Committee of the USDA Working Group on Water Quality. He began his career as a research agricultural engineer at the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, where he published on the topics of irrigation practices, crop water requirements, and alternative agricultural management systems. Dr. Bucks holds a Ph.D. in soil and water science from the University of Arizona.

JIM CARRIER is a columnist who covers the West for The Denver Post . A journalist for 25 years, 15 of them in the West, Mr. Carrier has written five books on western issues, ranging from Yellowstone National Park to cowboys and Indians. His interest in water issues stems from an extensive series on the Colorado River, republished as ''Down the Colorado." His report was updated in a June 1991 article in National Geographic Magazine titled, "The Colorado River in an Era of Limits."

ARNETT S. DENNIS has worked for the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation in Denver, Colorado, since 1981 on weather modification and climate change projects. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1955. He was vice president of the Weather Modification Company of San Jose, California, senior physicist at Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, and a consultant for the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and past president of the Weather Modification Association.

JOHN DRACUP is a professor in the Civil Engineering Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the