On Episode 7, (Part 2) of the Lone Star Deep Dive Podcast, host Tonya Kleuskens talks with Dr. Ken Kramer, Ph.D., a writer and Texas water policy specialist.
Dr. Kramer currently serves as the “public” representative on the Region H Water Planning Group, which conducts water supply planning for the 15-county area that includes Houston. He is also an “environmental” representative on the stakeholder committees on environmental flows for both the Brazos River Basin and the Trinity & San Jacinto River Basins & Galveston Bay. Dr. Kramer is also a member of the board and Treasurer of the Texas Water Foundation.
Dr. Kramer received a B.A. in History with a minor in Government from Texas Lutheran University in 1969. He was awarded an M.A. in Political Science from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1971 and then served in the United States Army, stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso. He received his Ph.D.in Political Science in 1979 from Rice University.
For 45 years Dr. Kramer was a volunteer or professional advocate for the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Texas state arm of the national environmental organization. He began his association with the Sierra Club as an elected member of the Chapter Executive Committee and as its volunteer Legislative Chair and Water Resources Chair. He then served for over seven years as a contract lobbyist for the Chapter at the Texas State Capitol in Austin. He became the first Director of the Lone Star Chapter in January 1989 and served in that capacity through July 2012. He then became the Chapter’s volunteer Water Resources Chair for over 0 years. Currently he serves as the volunteer History Chair for the Lone Star Chapter.
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