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Colorado River
Native America Calling: Dwindling water adds pressure for including tribal voices in future Colorado River water plans (September 10, 2025)
Tribes are seeking to flex whatever legal muscle they have to secure water protections along the Colorado River.
Pueblo of Zuni
Native America Calling: Tribes in the arid southwest face water management uncertainty (April 22, 2025)
Tribes that rely on the Colorado River — and the complex set of rules that govern it — are worried as the Donald Trump administration takes actions affecting their access to water.
Colorado River
Arizona Mirror: Bipartisan bill provides $5.1 billion for tribal water settlement (March 19, 2025)
The Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act addresses the water rights of the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation and the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.
Stephen Roe Lewis
KUNC: Gila River Indian Community charts own course when it comes to water supply (March 25, 2024)
The Gila River Indian Community plans to work directly with federal officials to develop its own proposal for water sharing on the Colorado River.
Colorado River
Native America Calling: Western tribes weigh in on Colorado River water sharing (March 21, 2024)
Four states and six tribes in the Colorado River Basin are working on what could be a historic agreement — if it happens at all.
Black Mesa
KUNC: Water projects blocked due to opposition on Navajo Nation (February 21, 2024)
Federal energy officials took the unusual step of denying permits to several pumped hydropower projects proposed on the Navajo Nation, citing a new policy that gives tribes a greater voice in projects on their lands.
Navajo Nation at U.S. Supreme Court
ProPublica: History repeats itself with state opposition to tribal water rights (October 17, 2023)
Government records shed new light on how state opposition hindered tribes from claiming their rightful shares of the Colorado River.
San Pedro River
Cronkite News: Arizona rivers land on ‘endangered’ list for another year (April 26, 2022)
Two Arizona waterways landed on an annual list of the top 10 “most endangered” rivers in the United States.
Cutter Lateral Water Treatment Plant
Cronkite News: Navajo Nation water right settlement brings infrastructure to communities (January 27, 2022)
Residents of the Navajo Nation have lived without easy access to clean water for decades.
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