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Perspectives on Groundwater Sustainability: Erik Ringelberg with the Freshwater Trust
Overview of your organization’s involvement with sustainable groundwater management issues? The Freshwater Trust is most well-known for its work on protecting freshwater river ecosystems. In California, a significant amount of surface water bodies are regulated and diverted through dams and other surface water infrastructure. Surface water bodies also lose flow when the groundwater is depleted. So for our efforts in California, we see as an important role for the Trust to use our understanding of surface waters and apply that to protecting their associated groundwater systems. California is
Why I Canvass
I am 22 and I have my dream job. In college I majored in environmental studies and focused on environmental justice. And unless I could get paid for activism and volunteer work, I really didn’t see myself getting paid for something I loved doing. I attended an annual social justice conference three of my four years in undergrad and got a taste of lobbying and working for social justice. I realized maybe I could work for positive and lasting social change. My first year I lobbied for the United States to join the Paris Climate Agreement. I met with staffers for a relatively conservative New
