AZ - Navajos focus on Little Colorado River settlement
The
Navajo Nation, unwilling to settle its claims to the Colorado River
without a pipeline to deliver much-needed water to its residents, now is
focusing on rights to water from one of the river's tributaries.
Negotiators on a northern Arizona water rights settlement have removed from the deal a $515 million pipeline that would have delivered water to the Navajo and Hopi reservations. Even with the lower cost, however, it remains uncertain when the revised settlement might be introduced in Congress.
Navajo lawmakers approved a version of the settlement last year. That version included the pipeline to send 11,000 acre-feet of Colorado River from Lake Powell to a handful of Navajo communities and about 4,000 acre-feet of water a year to the Hopi reservation.
But Republican Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, who has shepherded key American Indian water rights deals through Congress, later said it was too costly and asked the negotiators to revise it.
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Negotiators on a northern Arizona water rights settlement have removed from the deal a $515 million pipeline that would have delivered water to the Navajo and Hopi reservations. Even with the lower cost, however, it remains uncertain when the revised settlement might be introduced in Congress.
Navajo lawmakers approved a version of the settlement last year. That version included the pipeline to send 11,000 acre-feet of Colorado River from Lake Powell to a handful of Navajo communities and about 4,000 acre-feet of water a year to the Hopi reservation.
But Republican Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, who has shepherded key American Indian water rights deals through Congress, later said it was too costly and asked the negotiators to revise it.
read more
Posted by Knucklz at August 29, 2011 10:36 PM 
Categories: Water Wars, Government, Conspiracy, Economy, Country's Failing Infrastructure
Tags: Arizona Water Wars Conspiracy native americans Goverment
Categories: Water Wars, Government, Conspiracy, Economy, Country's Failing Infrastructure
Tags: Arizona Water Wars Conspiracy native americans Goverment
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