{"id":20468,"date":"2022-01-27T22:09:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=20468"},"modified":"2022-01-27T22:09:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:09:20","slug":"cronkite-news-navajo-nation-water-right-settlement-brings-infrastructure-to-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/01\/27\/cronkite-news-navajo-nation-water-right-settlement-brings-infrastructure-to-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite News: Navajo Nation water right settlement brings infrastructure to communities"},"content":{"rendered":" <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/01\/27\/cronkite-news-navajo-nation-water-right-settlement-brings-infrastructure-to-communities\/cutterlateralwatertreatmentplant\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1438\" data-attachment-id=\"20471\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/01\/27\/cronkite-news-navajo-nation-water-right-settlement-brings-infrastructure-to-communities\/cutterlateralwatertreatmentplant\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/28\/CutterLateralWaterTreatmentPlant-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1438\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Cutter Lateral Water Treatment Plant\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Cutter Lateral Water Treatment Plant was completed in 2020. It delivers clean water to 1,500 households in eight Navajo communities in New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/28\/CutterLateralWaterTreatmentPlant-1024x575.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/28\/CutterLateralWaterTreatmentPlant-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cutter Lateral Water Treatment Plant\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20471\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> The Cutter Lateral Water Treatment Plant was completed in 2020. It delivers clean water to 1,500 households in eight Navajo communities in New Mexico.  Photo courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation <\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project projected to serve thousands of people<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Thursday, January 27, 2022<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Emma VandenEinde<\/div>\r\n<DIV class=source>Cronkite News<\/DIV>\r\n<DIV class=source-website><A \r\nhref=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/\">cronkitenews.azpbs.org<\/A><\/DIV>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPHOENIX &#8212;  Arizonans are facing water shortages as the Colorado River declines, but Teddy Lopez and many other residents of the Navajo Nation have lived without easy access to clean water for decades.<p><\/p>\r\nLopez, 66, has learned that nothing is guaranteed \u2013 with water or in life.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cI just take it one day at a time and try to work what I can, what I can do,\u201d said Lopez, who in August received news no one wants to hear.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cI have cancer,\u201d he said, \u201cso I just take care of my family, I guess.\u201d  <p><\/p>\r\nLopez lives with his wife in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/Farmington,+New+Mexico\/Lybrook,+NM+87013\/@36.4813304,-109.0206789,8z\/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x873b8f00ad0c7ec7:0xc823b1b63b534e1a!2m2!1d-108.2186856!2d36.7280583!1m5!1m1!1s0x873cc40f62beea49:0xe15aef5988b757dd!2m2!1d-107.5622739!2d36.2333466!3e0\">Lybrook, New Mexico<\/a>, and his daughter and grandchildren visit him every day to cook his meals.<p><\/p>\r\nThere&#8217;s not much in Lybrook, a small town about 60 miles south of Farmington,  to take his mind off his health. So Lopez gardens.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cI&#8217;ve got tomatoes. My garden, you know, it\u2019s wonderful.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1204289455&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cronkitenews\" title=\"CRONKITENEWS\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">CRONKITENEWS<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cronkitenews\/navajo-apache-nations-in-southwest-to-receive-clean-drinking-water\" title=\"Navajo, Apache Nations in Southwest to receive clean drinking water\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Navajo, Apache Nations in Southwest to receive clean drinking water<\/a><\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Cronkite News Audio by Emma VandenEinde: <a href=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cronkitenews\/navajo-apache-nations-in-southwest-to-receive-clean-drinking-water> Navajo, Apache Nations in Southwest to receive clean drinking water\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nBut the water sustaining that bounty isn\u2019t guaranteed, either. The Lybrook Water Association relies on groundwater, which is rapidly declining in the Four Corners area, and it has to do regular maintenance on its system.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cWhen they go clean the tank out \u2026 they tell us about a week ahead of time and then we store water,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cWe store water for our toilet bowl, and we store water for bathing and stuff like that, in separate containers.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nLopez is not the only one. Jason John, director of water resources for the Navajo Nation, said other areas of northern New Mexico and Arizona also desperately lack water \u2013 a situation he calls \u201clife-altering.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cIn some parts of Navajo (Nation), it&#8217;s difficult to imagine us sustaining ourselves only on groundwater,\u201d John said. \u201cThere&#8217;s many communities that don&#8217;t have reliable groundwater sources that we&#8217;re already importing groundwater from other places to get them water.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nThat reliance on groundwater on the reservation is the reason the federal government stepped in more than a decade ago. Lopez hopes it will be more stable and healthy for his family.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cIf the Navajo water, the Cutter Lateral, came in, then it (the water) would be a lot cheaper,\u201d Lopez said.<p><\/p>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/11\/12\/a-clear-message-to-sovereign-nations-indian-country-cheers-passage-of-1-2-trillion-infrastructure-bill\/navajonation-16\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17919\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"838\" data-attachment-id=\"17919\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/11\/12\/a-clear-message-to-sovereign-nations-indian-country-cheers-passage-of-1-2-trillion-infrastructure-bill\/navajonation-16\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/12\/navajonation.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,838\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Delegates from the Navajo Nation Council, the legislative arm of the Navajo Nation, tour the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in New Mexico on November 10, 2021. The project is a major infrastructure initiative that will bring water to communities on the New Mexico portion of the largest reservation in the United States. Photo: Navajo Nation Council &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/12\/navajonation-1024x715.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/12\/navajonation.jpg\" alt=\"Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-17919\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> Delegates from the Navajo Nation Council, the legislative arm of the Navajo Nation, tour the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project in New Mexico on November 10, 2021. The project is a major infrastructure initiative that will bring water to communities on the New Mexico portion of the largest reservation in the United States. Photo: Navajo Nation Council <\/figcaption>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe Cutter Lateral is one of two pipelines that carry water from two treatment plants, aided by several pumping stations. They make up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usbr.gov\/uc\/progact\/navajo-gallup\/index.html\">Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project<\/a>, which is more than a decade old but isn\u2019t expected to be finished until 2029.<p><\/p>\r\nThe need is urgent: In 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/newsroom\/ihs-blog\/december2020\/increasing-access-to-safe-water-on-the-navajo-nation-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Indian Health Service<\/a> estimated that more than 9,600 homes on the Navajo reservation did not have access to clean water. More than 40% of Navajo Nation households rely on hauling water to meet their daily needs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which is overseeing the construction of the Navajo-Gallup project.<p><\/p>\r\nPat Page, a construction engineer who manages the Bureau of Reclamation office overseeing the project, said solutions were discussed for more than four decades. The stars eventually aligned in 2005, when the Navajo Nation and New Mexico signed a water rights agreement settling the tribe\u2019s claims on the San Juan River Basin.<p><\/p>\r\nThe federal government didn\u2019t enter the picture until 2009, Page said, when Congress authorized many infrastructure projects, including Navajo-Gallup, under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/111\/plaws\/publ11\/PLAW-111publ11.pdf\">Public Law 111-11<\/a>.<p><\/p>\r\nThe bureau\u2019s goal is to divert more than 37,000 acre feet of water from the San Juan Basin \u2013 enough water to fill 37,000 football fields to a depth of 1 foot. That water will go to three places: the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation, the Jicarilla Apache Nation and Gallup, New Mexico. Based on predicted population growth, the project by 2040 should serve 250,000 people in an area the size of New Jersey.<p><\/p>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/01\/27\/cronkite-news-navajo-nation-water-right-settlement-brings-infrastructure-to-communities\/navajonation-20\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"766\" data-attachment-id=\"20475\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/01\/27\/cronkite-news-navajo-nation-water-right-settlement-brings-infrastructure-to-communities\/navajonation-20\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/28\/navajonation.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,766\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Navajo Nation\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer meet with Rep.&lt;br \/&gt;\nTeresa Leger Fern\u00e1ndez (D-New Mexico), City of Gallup Mayor Louie Bonaguidi, and officials with the U.S. Department of the&lt;br \/&gt;\nInterior and Bureau of Reclamation near the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project in Gallup, New Mexico, on November 23, 2021. Photo: Navajo Nation Office of President and Vice President&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/28\/navajonation-1024x613.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/28\/navajonation.jpg\" alt=\"Navajo Nation\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-20475\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer meet with Rep. Teresa Leger Fern\u00e1ndez (D-New Mexico), City of Gallup Mayor Louie Bonaguidi, and officials with the U.S. Department of the Interior and Bureau of Reclamation near the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project in Gallup, New Mexico, on November 23, 2021. Photo: Navajo Nation Office of President and Vice President<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/handouts\/WNR%20071221%20Item%201%20Bureau%20of%20Reclamation%20NGWSP%20Update.pdf\">Construction<\/a> is well underway, and Page hopes to get water to people like Lopez soon.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cTwo hundred fifty miles out of the 300 miles of pipe are either in the ground or under construction,\u201d Page said. \u201cBut we still do have some big items left to construct, which puts us about 50% completed.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nResidents living in these areas struggle to get water. John said that struggle can be life-altering.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cYour life is totally different,\u201d he said. \u201cHow you spend your free time, how you ration the water, how you cook and how you clean \u2013 it&#8217;s a different lifestyle.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nNinety percent of reservation residents who do receive water rely on groundwater, which can\u2019t be replenished as quickly as surface water.<p><\/p>\r\nThat\u2019s what the project is meant to fix.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cWe&#8217;re essentially replacing that groundwater supply with the treated surface water supply,\u201d Page said, \u201cwhich makes it more reliable, more sustainable and then probably in many cases, definitely improved quality water.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nDespite the ongoing <a href=\/covid19\/>COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, one part of the project already is up and running.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cWe were able to complete the construction on the Cutter Lateral,\u201d Page said. \u201cOctober of 2020, we began the initial water deliveries to communities.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nThe Cutter Lateral stretches water pipelines from Blanco to Pueblo Pintado in New Mexico. It was fully operational in July 2021 and brings water to eight Navajo communities.<p><\/p>\r\nIt also goes through Lybrook, where Lopez lives. But he\u2019s still struggling to get water.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cThere&#8217;s a rancher that lives between (me and) the water line,\u201d Lopez said, \u201cand we have to go around his place.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nLopez isn\u2019t the only one experiencing problems. The second pipeline \u2013 the San Juan Lateral \u2013 remains under construction. Public Act 111-11 from 2009 grants 6,411 acre feet of water to the Navajo project areas in Arizona, where the majority of the reservation lies.<p><\/p>\r\nBut there\u2019s a catch.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cWe could not deliver any water into Arizona through the project until the Navajo Nation as a whole resolves its water rights claims in Arizona,\u201d John said.<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_twitter-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usbr\/status\/1472975179689213956\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FHEPHrmWYAMT6yB?format=webp&#038;name=large\" alt=\"Bureau of Reclamation (@usbr) on X\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usbr\/status\/1472975179689213956\">\n\t\t\tBureau of Reclamation (@usbr) on X\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usbr\/status\/1472975179689213956\">\n\t\t\t<p>Reclamation make significant progress towards completion of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project with the latest award of a $76,113,868 contract to SJ Louis Construction of Rockville, Minnesota, for construction of the next portion of the project. https:\/\/t.co\/7DZHWw9WmT<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"X (formerly Twitter)\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tX (formerly Twitter)\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nJohn is referencing another section of Public Law 111-11, which requires the tribe to \u201cwaive (its) claims to water in the Lower Basin and the Little Colorado River Basin\u201d in Arizona before Navajo-Gallup project water can be delivered. It also states that the Navajo Nation would need to enter a \u201cwater supply delivery contract\u201d for the San Juan basin water.<p><\/p>\r\nIn essence, the Navajo Nation would need to give up some of its water before getting access to the new system, which would be out of tribal control.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cWe basically have a pipeline that has the capacity to deliver water to Arizona, but we just can&#8217;t,\u201d John said. \u201cWe are trying to address these issues piece-by-piece. We understand that all of these families who don&#8217;t have water today, they need some kind of water sooner or later.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nUntil then, Arizona residents on the San Juan Lateral can\u2019t receive water from the project, even if the pipes are in place.<p><\/p>\r\nJohn said he believes water should be a basic human right.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cThat is the language that&#8217;s in there,\u201d John said. \u201cWe can&#8217;t give any water through the project to residents in Arizona. And you would think that that type of language wouldn&#8217;t occur in the United States, but it does.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nThe tribe is not going to settle, he said. That stalemate, along with financial needs for the project, are some of the reasons why the completion date moved from 2024 to 2029.<p><\/p>\r\nPage still believes the project will make an impact.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cIt doesn&#8217;t just meet the immediate needs, but it also is going to meet the needs and really change the lives of generations to come,\u201d he said.<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_twitter-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usbr\/status\/1416080262534942723\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/E6btfVUWUAQZha0?format=webp&#038;name=large\" alt=\"Bureau of Reclamation (@usbr) on X\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usbr\/status\/1416080262534942723\">\n\t\t\tBureau of Reclamation (@usbr) on X\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usbr\/status\/1416080262534942723\">\n\t\t\t<p>Reclamation and Oscar Renda Contracting welcomed the #NavajoNation to tour the San Juan Lateral Block 4c-8 construction site, part of the #NavajoGallupWaterSupplyProject. This will bring critical drinking water to the Navajo communities and City of Gallup. @OnlineSouthland<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"X (formerly Twitter)\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tX (formerly Twitter)\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nLopez said he looks forward to that change. It would add to the good news he received in February 2021.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cThey called me in, and I went in, and then he (physician) asked me, &#8216;What&#8217;ve you been eating, Ted?&#8217;\u201d Lopez said. \u201cAnd I said, &#8216;Well, one stew (mutton) and frybread.&#8217; He said, &#8216;Go ahead, be my guest. Eat a lot more of that because you don&#8217;t have cancer anymore.&#8217;\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nBut just like finding water, it\u2019s not guaranteed.<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cHe said, &#8216;There&#8217;s a catch there, it might come back,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cSo we&#8217;re going to have to take a blood draw every, every month.\u201d<p><\/p>\r\nLopez remains patient, remembering he can only take his days \u2013 and his water \u2013 one step at a time.<p><\/p>\r\n<STRONG>For more stories from Cronkite News, visit <A href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/?utm_source=referral&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=client\">cronkitenews.azpbs.org<\/A>.<\/STRONG>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>Note: This story originally <a href=\"https:\/\/cronkitenews.azpbs.org\/2022\/01\/26\/navajo-gallup-water-supply-project-serve-thousands-people\/\">appeared on Cronkite News<\/a>.  It  is published via a <A href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative  Commons license<\/A>. 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