Water is a huge issue in the Eastern Sierra but water politics tends to be a "boring but important" topic that few people care about. Imagine my surprise while visiting an independent bookseller in Bishop (about 45 minutes southeast of Mammoth on the drive up from Bakersfield) to find two shelves devoted to water issues. But, get this, while I was there, a real human (a younger man who had cool written all over him) came in and asked a clerk if they had a specific book on water politics. Egads! I felt like I was in "The Twilight Zone."