First Nations

LADWP Confirms Elevation of Mono Lake Is Rising, No Emergency Conditions Present

[H2O IQ editor's note: also see the immediately preceding post concerning the Mono Lake Tribe of California and its concerns…

2 years ago

Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Water Rights, Calls for Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles

Photo: A grove of tufa towers along the south shore of Mono Lake, California, where long-term drought, global warming and…

2 years ago

$8B settlement between First Nations, feds in clean water class action

Photo: Two class actions over lack of clean water in First Nations were filed in 2019 and then combined in…

3 years ago

‘Everything is drying up’: As springs on Hopi land decline, a sacred connection is threatened

Max Taylor, a Hopi Tribe water resources technician, stands near Lemeva Spring on the Hopi Reservation on July 30, 2020.…

4 years ago

No Safe Drinking Water On Reservation Leaves Thousands Improvising

Photo: The emergency water distribution center on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation serves as many as 900 people a day.…

5 years ago