Navajo Wells Poisoned with Uranium; Yaqui Indians Defend Water; Bottled Water Comes from Worst Drought Areas

With uranium poisoning wells, Navajos must drive miles to get drinking water. Twice a week, the Yazzies come down off their lonely hill on the Navajo Reservation and point themselves toward the city for the clean water they need. For ages, they drank from a well less than a mile from their home. Then they learned that poison lurked there.

Mexico’s Yaqui indians defend water rights in meeting with senators. Representatives of the Yaqui Indian tribe demanded a halt to the operation of an aqueduct in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora, saying in a meeting with senators that it will leave their communities without water.

Bottled water comes from the most drought-ridden places in the country. Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: there’s a good chance that your water comes from California, a state experiencing the third driest year on record.