"Try getting through one summer day of 100-degree-plus weather in Phoenix with no electricity.

If this happened, I'm certain the governor would declare a state of emergency, the National Guard would be mobilized, evacuations would be ordered and curfews would be enforced in an attempt to prevent looting, violence and general mayhem.

But this dreadful scenario of a powerless month is not a fantasy in Arizona. It is happening right now on the Havasupai Indian Reservation, one of the state's most beautiful and remote locations that attracts more than 30,000 visitors a year to its spectacular waterfalls. The temperatures do not get as hot on the Havasupai Reservation as they do in the Valley of the Sun, but they come close.

The fact that the entire reservation has gone without power for weeks on end this summer should be major news � it should be attracting the attention of Governor Janet Napolitano, the Legislature and even Congress. But it isn't."

Get the Story:
No Power for the Powerless (The Phoenix New Times 7/20)

Relevant Links:
Havasupai Tribe - http://www.havasupaitribe.com