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Native America Calling: The trouble finding safe drinking water

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

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The trouble finding safe drinking water

There is no more basic need than clean drinking water.

That’s a need that the Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska has been lacking since the Environmental Protection Agency issued a no drink order in 2019. Wells on the reservation are showing levels the mineral manganese as much as 50 times higher than the agency considers safe.

A long-term solution could cost upwards of $40 million. There’s no identifiable source of any funding for even a fraction of that amount.

Guests on Native America Calling

Alonzo Denney (Santee Sioux), chairman of the Santee Sioux Nation

Kameron Runnels (Santee Sioux), vice chairman of the Santee Sioux Nation

Mike Crosley (Santee Sioux), land manager for the Santee Sioux Nation

Lisa Sockabasin (citizen of the Passamaquoddy Tribe), co-CEO of Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness