Ignored for decades, Colorado River tribes fight for their water rights
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 fill up water tanks, sometimes multiple times a day. The well spigot in the dirt parking lot next to a shuttered post office in Goulding, Utah, is just up the road from modern lodges that house tourists visiting the valley, one of the most iconic settings for Western movies. … The Navajo, or Diné, have heard for decades the promise of running water in their homes. Many have yet to see it, and they don’t expect it to arrive any time soon.