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The Navajo Nation has first rights to the water around it, yet pays the most and gets the least. ... The Lake Powell Pipeline would involve 13 pumping stations pushing water up 2,000 ft. across ...
Infrastructure projects outlined by the Navajo Nation include a $1.7 billion pipeline to deliver water from Lake Powell to tribal communities. The caveat being that there is no guarantee that ...
The Navajo Nation Council has signed off on a proposed settlement that would ensure water rights for its tribe and two others in the drought-stricken Southwest — a deal that could become the ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court seemed split Monday as it weighed a dispute involving the federal government and the Navajo Nation’s quest for water from the drought-stricken Colorado River. States that draw ...
The Navajo negotiated water settlements with New Mexico and Utah in 2009 and 2020 respectively, but had not reached an agreement with Arizona in 2023. On June 22, 2023, the US Supreme Court ruled in Arizona v. Navajo Nation that the federal government of the United States has no obligation to ensure that the Navajo Nation has access to water ...
The company pumped water from the underground Navajo Aquifer for washing coal, and, until 2005, in a slurry pipeline operation to transport extracted coal 273 mi (439 km) to the Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada. With the pipeline operating, Peabody pumped an average of 3 million gallons of water from the Navajo Aquifer every day. [3]
At issue is whether the Navajo Nation can press ahead with a lawsuit ... the Navajo Nation can press ahead with a lawsuit that seeks a federal plan to supply its residents' unmet need for water.