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Native America Calling: The trouble finding safe drinking water
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
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
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