Donna Lisenby Speaks Of Her Love For Water

"[Clean water is] the most fundamental, basic human right."
—Donna Lisenby, Upper Watauga Riverkeeper

Donna Lisenby serves as North Carolina's Upper Watauga Riverkeeper and sits on the Waterkeeper Alliance Board of Directors as an At-Large Representative.  She is also the Director of Water Programs at Upper Watauga Riverkeeper's parent organization, Appalachian Voices.  Donna's river and the communities she serves lie near the heart of Appalachian coal country.  The pollution and environmental descruction caused by the coal industry around the town of Boone, North Carolina, has led her to become a leading public advocate for ending dangerous practices like mountain top removal mining and improper disposal of the toxic coal ash waste produced by power plants across the U.S. As you'll hear in the video, clean water is the most basic of human rights to Donna.  She grew up with a strong affinity for everything related to water and chose to make it her life's work in adulthood.  That's a tremendous boon for the Waterkeeper family.

Thanks Donna, and keep up the good work!