About one-third of Navajo Nation residents lack running water in their homes and water pollution remains a serious issue in the region. We talk to Kaitlin Harris of DigDeep’s Navajo Water Project about solutions to these pressing problems.
Episode highlights
| Introduction (0:57) | |
 | Kaitlin Harris, DigDeep Navajo Water Project Kaitlin is a field engineer for the Navajo Water Project, a grant and donation-funded effort to bring drinking water and sanitation services to remote communities in the Navajo Nation, which is roughly the size of West Virginia.
Starts at 1:05 |
 | Bringing hot and cold water service to remote communities Thirty percent of Navajo Nation residents lack access to hot or cold water or sanitation. Starts at 1:52 |
| Water challenges on the Navajo Nation As in many indigenous communities, infrastructure in the Navajo Nation has long been underfunded. A four decade legacy of uranium mining has left a lot of pollution as well. The Nation’s dispersed population also makes it more difficult to provide water service. Starts at 4:18 | |
| Intersection of Covid-19 and water security (9:41) | |
 | Water Words: ‘Prior Appropriation’ (13:13) |
| How did water problems take root in the Nation? (15:34) | |
| Can federal legislation be of help? (19:36) | |
| The Western Navajo Pipeline project (21:02) | |
| Do water projects create jobs? (22:06) | |
| Funding sources for water projects (23:50) | |
| Other communities facing similar challenges? (25:33) | |
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