High schooler takes on contaminated water in Thermal
“I was inspired by Erin Brockovich to help communities with contaminated tap water,” says Ryan Sinderbrand, a junior at Westlake High School in Thousand Oaks, “so I took some environmental and sustainability classes to learn more. I’d watched the news, and I’d heard stories about how serious the problem was.” Wanting to help, he researched communities in California with contaminated water and came across the Coachella Valley.