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2. Navajo water rights - Wikipedia

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   Navajo water rights. Water rights for the Navajo Nation have been a source of environmental conflict for decades, as Navajo lands have provided energy and water for residents of neighboring states while many of the Navajo do not have electricity or running water in their homes. Beginning in the 1960s, coal mining by Peabody coal at Black Mesa ...

3. Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 36°31′29″N 110°23′55″W. Peabody Energy mined coal at the Black Mesa plateau in the southwestern United States from the 1960s until 2019. The plateau overlaps the Navajo and Hopi reservations. Controversy arose from an unusually generous mineral lease agreement between the Tribes and Peabody Energy and the company's ...

4. Navajo Generating Station - Wikipedia

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   It also provided the power for pumping Colorado River water for the Central Arizona Project, supplying about 1.5 million acre feet (1.85 km 3) of water annually to central and southern Arizona. As of 2017 permission to operate as a conventional coal-fired plant was anticipated until 2017–2019, [ 3 ] and to December 22, 2044, if extended. [ 4 ]

5. Indigenous nations approve historic water rights agreement ...

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   The Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute nations have settled their water-rights claims with the state of Arizona. Indigenous nations approve historic water rights agreement with Arizona. It ...

6. Page, Arizona - Wikipedia

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   Page was founded in 1957 as a housing community for workers and their families during the construction of nearby Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. Its 17-square-mile (44 km 2) site was obtained in a land exchange with the Navajo Nation. The city is perched atop Manson Mesa at an elevation of 4,300 feet (1,300 m) above sea level and 600 ...

7. Gadsden Purchase - Wikipedia

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   The Gadsden Purchase (Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west ...