I’m Hannes Zacharias from Lenexa KS, speaking for High Plains Public Radio’s Radio Readers Book Club. The book is Running Out by Lucas Bessire. Published in 2021, this book emanates from Lucas’ childhood home, the Little Rock House, located on the banks of the now gone Cimarron River. The book forms a quilt composed of different revelations about aquifer depletion, family strife and reconciliation, and maddening water bureaucracy in a world focused on extraction and corporate profits.