Cloer is the former assistant superintendent of the Bloomfield School District and retired director of the New Mexico Highlands University center at San Juan College.
Her late husband Harold was one of the founders of the West Hammond Domestic Water Cooperative Association District.
Her new booklet Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink covers the history of the organization.
FARMINGTON The act of poring over 50-year-old minutes from meetings of a fledgling domestic water cooperative might not seem like the most exciting way to spend your time.
But to Carol Cloer, it was riveting reading. Water is more valuable than gold now, she said, describing the reality of life in the Southwest. And it s just going to be more and more and more valuable.