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WASHINGTON — Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren asked senators July 12 for more funding, and time, for a pipeline project that would create a reliable water supply for 250,000 people across Arizona and New Mexico.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren asked senators Wednesday for more funding, and time, for a pipeline project that would create a reliable water supply for 250,000 people across Arizona and New Mexico.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren was in Washington to testify in support of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project Amendments Act of 2023.

MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah • Navajo Nation residents in pickup trucks rumbled along dusty dirt roads in the ethereal painted desert of Monument Valley in August to a well where they

The Department of the Interior today commemorated the completion of a major component of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) that will deliver water to communities within the Navajo Nation and Jicarilla Apache Nation through the Cutter Lateral, a recently constructed water treatment pipeline that delivers clean water to over 1,500 households.

The need is urgent: In 2020, the Indian Health Service estimated that more than 9,600 homes on the Navajo reservation did not have access to clean water

Residents of the Navajo Nation have lived without easy access to clean water for decades.

The ongoing project aims to bring drinking water to the Navajo Nation, the Jicarilla Apache Nation and Gallup, New Mexico. Some residents have received water while others are still waiting.

By Elizabeth Miller, New Mexico In Depth | May 11, 2021 Marjorie Childress/New Mexico In Depth People from throughout the region come into Gallup to haul water from the town’s water loading station. In July and August, about 2 million gallons are dispensed through the system. Early this year, five of Gallup, New Mexico’s 16 water wells stopped producing water, including two of its biggest. After a few days of maintenance, two worked. The other three were out of commission for more than a m...

Navajo-Gallup water delay spurs problem solving in arid Southwest People from throughout the region come into Gallup to haul water from the town’s water loading station. In July and August, about 2 million gallons are dispensed through the system. Photo: Marjorie Childress This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Columbia Insight, Ensia, High Country News,...