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Every other day, 83-year-old Marilyn Tewa of the Hopi Tribe loads buckets into her pickup and drives 5 miles to haul wat

The part about her being 83 and still having to haul water herself—that's what gets me. Likethis isn't some abstract policy problemit's this specific person's entire lifepeople keep saying the water is 'stolen' but that's not really how it works. the colorado river compact was signed in 1922it's overallocated to everyonenobody's hiding waterhonestly this just breaks my heart. we've had the technology and resources to fix this for decades and somehow it's still happening

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