A Supreme Court ruling this week will make it harder for the Navajo Nation to get water from the Colorado River
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crossing the reservation. The question before the court was whether the federal government had to quantify the tribe's water needs and come up with a plan to meet them. Arizona — joined by Nevada and Colorado — argued that requiring them to accommodate the Navajo Nation’s water needs would upend future negotiations over water for 40 million people and a $15 billion-a-year agricultural industry that grows most of the nation’s winter vegetables.“Where do the Navajo go from here?” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the dissent.
The National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp said the justices helped the federal government escape its promises to tribes “by stating that treaties only secure access to water, but do not require the United States to take any steps to protect or provide that water to our people.” “There’s not enough water now,” Christensen said. “Congress isn’t going to take further steps to go ahead and secure Indian water rights away from the neighboring states.”
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