Here I am in Boulder City near Vegas. My hotel is in Vegas, but this is where work is taking me. The National Academies is conducting a study for the Bureau of Reclamation. The Bureau runs some 355 dams it built over the course of a century in the West. Without the Bureau, the West would be arrid. We are trying to see how the Bureau could better manage itself, especially its facilities. Its role has changed from that of a dam builder to that of a dam manager. But this region we are visiting is very well run. Not much to say against them. Still, we sat with the regional top management, and then with the area managers. We visited a series of dams, including one you may have heard of. Listening at first, and asking questions later, I learned a lot about management, and problems people have to deal with.