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Hualapai leader urges Senate to OK water plan, as wells fail in drought
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Cronkite News
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hualapai Chairman Damon Clarke told a Senate committee Wednesday that getting access to Colorado River water is “the only feasible solution” for his tribe, whose wells are failing under the stress of the continuing drought.
The Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022 [S.4104] would give the tribe water rights to the Colorado, Verde and Bill Williams rivers and fund construction of water infrastructure that would deliver about 4,000 acre-feet of water a year to the tribe.
Besides delivering water to the roughly 1,600 Hualapai on the reservation, the project would serve Grand Canyon West and its Skywalk, tribe-owned tourist attractions that Clarke said are major employers of tribal members.
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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Notice
Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on S. 4104, S. 4439 & H.R. 5221 (July 20, 2022)
Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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