November’s issue of Water Well Journal® includes a guest editorial written by Katy Anderson on the groundwater industry’s labor shortage and why women are essential to helping solve the issue.
Titled “Expanding the Crew: Why Groundwater’s Future Depends on Welcoming Women,” Anderson details today’s required skillset for groundwater professionals and how women are not only capable of mastering these roles, but they are also already doing so.
“Across the country, women are operating rigs, diagnosing pump controls, managing field crews, running environmental remediation projects, and directing multi-million-dollar supply and contracting firms,” Anderson writes.
Anderson concludes by offering three actions that can be taken by company leadership to attract more women to the trade. Click here to read the guest editorial.
Anderson is vice president of commercial operations at Drilling Equipment Resources. She is co-chair of NGWA’s Advancing Women in Groundwater leadership team and 2026 recipient of the Association’s Special Recognition Award. She also serves as executive director of the Oklahoma Ground Water Association.