Opinion: This ‘infrastructure’ fix is simple – Pipe clean water to Native Americans
Much of the infrastructure talk in Washington these days focuses on large, complicated projects involving tunnels, bridges and highways. But there is a much more basic matter involving infrastructure that also merits attention: the need to provide clean water to the more than half a million Native Americans who lack the sort of water and sanitation services that other Americans take for granted.
– Written by Bidtah Becker, an associate attorney for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, and Anne Castle, senior fellow at the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment at the University of Colorado and former assistant secretary for water and science at the U.S. Interior Department.Related article:
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