Friday, July 10, 2009

Native Americans finally get a pot to piss in

After sending billions upon billions to other countries in foreign aid, Native Americans finally get running water on their reservation in Arizona. (well soon, not yet)


FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The road from the Navajo community of Sweetwater to Red
Mesa is unpaved and rugged but well traveled.
Twice a week, about 100
residents on the outskirts of Sweetwater load up 55-gallon drums and drive 12
miles so that they can have clean drinking water for themselves and their
livestock. Other water sources closer to home exceed standards for
arsenic.
"They say water is life, and that's true," said Sarah Lee,
administrator of the Navajo Nation's Sweetwater Chapter. "It's hard when it's
really not accessible right here at your fingertips, having water in your home." - News Observer

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