ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are indebted to the following people or organizations, across the world, who in one way or another helped us to compile this book.
J. Rose from John Wiley and Sons for his editorial handling and for his very quick reactions to the many questions asked by the authors. R. Purtschert from the University of Bern, for his time to show the underground laboratory at the University of Bern and for the discussions. D. J. Goode from the USGS for giving permission to use materials from his Ph.D. thesis. K. McGuire from the Georgia Technical University and R. E. Criss from California Institute of Technology for providing some papers and information about the use of stable isotopes of water in dating young groundwaters. L. Sebol from Golder Asso-ciates, Canada, F. Cornaton from the University of Waterloo, D. Pinti from the University of Québec, D. Hunkeler from the University of Neuchatel, and W. Deutsch from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for their review of a chapter of the book. T. Vitvar from IAEA Vienna for information about his Ph.D. thesis. L. D. Cecil from the USGS for reviewing part of the manuscript and for providing an electronic copy of his Ph.D. thesis. B. G. Katz from USGS for his help in obtaining CFCs and SF6 data. E. Busenberg for providing CFCs and SF6 data. D. Nelms from the USGS for his information about the suscep-tibility/vulnerability mapping using age data. C. Bethke from the University of Illinois for his initial positive response to an email by G. A. Kazemi con-firming the need for such a book and also for his assessment of the proposal later. P. G. Cook from the CSIRO, Australia, for providing some information regarding age-dating young groundwater by 36Cl/Cl. B. T. Verhagen from the University of Witwatersrand for his information about dating laboratory facilities in South Africa and elsewhere.

Elsevier, Springer, Nature publishing group, Geological Society of America, Geological Society, London,American Institute of Hydrology (AIH),TPS, and many authors for permission to reproduce copyrighted materials. Janet Lehr for her help to gather information and references. The friendly and scientific environment at CHYN, University of Neuchatel, has helped greatly in deliv-ering the manuscript on time. We especially have to thank Ms. Elisabeth Kuster, Librarian, for timely provision of books and papers and for her help in translating from German texts.