On June 1, 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar administered the oath of office to the new Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Michael Connor. The Bureau’s 18th chief, Connor steps up to the front lines of the western water battlefield-perhaps the most persistent of our “long wars.” The Bureau works at the nexus of energy and water issues, as many methods of power generation consume considerable amounts of water, and moving water from its source to where it’s used requires lar