U.S. REP. KEVIN MULLIN, D-San Mateo, spoke this week in South San Francisco to promote a new bipartisan bill that would direct the U.S. Geological Survey to address a hidden threat happening just below our feet. 

The Groundwater Rise and Infrastructure Preparedness Act, introduced in Congress on June 25 by Mullin and Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-New York, would direct the USGS to map and forecast future groundwater rise through 2100. 

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.