Navajo officials ask lawmakers to work harder to secure water supplies
Navajo Nation Speaker Crystalyne Curley told a U.S. Senate committee that many Navajo citizens still struggle to find clean drinking water, and joined other officials seeking help to secure reliable supplies. … The hearing was a chance to examine the ongoing challenge of clean water access for tribal communities, said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, the committee’s chairperson. It also offered an opportunity to hear testimony not only from Curley but from other tribal leaders, experts and federal partners on how the investments made by the bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act has assisted in these communities.