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Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation

  • Written by Robert Glennon, Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona
Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo NationA water pump outside a home on the Navajo Nation in Thoreau, N.M.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Southwest – an area larger than 10 states. Today it is home to more than 250,000 people – roughly comparable to...

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