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Ignored for decades, Colorado River tribes fight for their water rights

Aug 27, 2022

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Mary Shinn

MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah • Navajo Nation residents in pickup trucks rumbled along dusty dirt roads in the ethereal painted desert of Monument Valley in August to a well where they fill up water tanks, sometimes multiple times a day. The well spigot in the dirt parking lot next to a shuttered post office in Goulding, Utah, is…
Native American areas in the Four Corners region

Aug 19, 2022

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Evan Wyloge, the gazette
Tipping Point: Colorado River tribes fight for their water rights

Aug 18, 2022

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Colorado Politics

Some 10,000 households on the vast Navajo Nation, which covers 27,000 square miles in three states, are still without running water. Native American tribes hold some of the most senior water rights in the Colorado River Basin, but history has shown that having senior water rights and having water are two different realities. The tribes,…
Tipping Point: Series Intro

Jul 17, 2022

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Colorado Politics

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