“The [Navajo] Nation welcomes the growth this moment represents,” said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez. “The hard work, however, must continue until all homes across the Navajo Nation have clean water running in faucets for all Navajo families.”
Under legislation pushed by Romney, feds to invest $210 million to deliver water to tribe members’ homes in Utah.
After two decades of negotiations amid the climate crisis and megadrought, the Navajo Nation will now have the capacity, with help from the U.S. and Utah governments, to connect thousands of homes across San Juan County with running water and other basic water needs. U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney jokes with the crowd before they sign the agreement for the Navajo federal reserved water rights settlement Friday, May 27, 2022., said that he was first approached by Nez to help resolve the controversy around the right to the water that flows through the Navajo Nation.
“By virtue of my having been part of this infrastructure team, we were able to focus on those places where the need was most immediate, and running water on the Navajo Nation, where people were suffering from high levels of COVID, that was such a high priority that Republicans and Democrats said, ‘OK, this has got to be done,’” Romney said. “And so that broke the logjam.”
Haaland said she hauled water in buckets with her grandparents in the Village of Mesita in Laguna Pueblo, a reservation near Albuquerque. The family didn’t get water until 1975. There is no reason in 2022 that anyone should be hauling water, Haaland said. The Navajo Nation will “have the ability with that water to use it as they see fit. And I’m certainly hoping that it can be used, obviously, for beneficial use for the tribal members, but it also has some potential economic stimulus for the tribe,” said Cox.
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