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Southwest's water crisis hitting Navajo people first – and hardest

LEUPP, Ariz. – A lifetime of declining snowfall on the Navajo Reservation is making an already unforgiving desert landscape increasingly uninhabitable.

Snow tracked at six northeastern Arizona weather stations has plummeted by more than two-thirds on average since the 1930s, according to research led by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Dozens of streams that flowed year-round on the reservation now dry up seasonally, and the parched springs and wells along their banks send isolated residents on long drives for store-bought water.

http://www.azcentral.com/longform/news/arizona/investigations/2015/08/24/lack-snow-brings-hardships-navajo-reservation/31955229/

 

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