Navajo Nation Water Demands

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• Navajo Nation Water Demands
• Water Resources Development Commission

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Colorado River Basin
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Navajo Nation
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Navajo NationArizona, New Mexico and Utah
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The Navajo Nation110 Chapters
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Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation comprises 298,197 members (2000 Census) and has 27,000 square miles (17,553,809 acres) of land consisting of four separate areas. The main land area is simply called the Navajo Nation. Another land area is located 15 miles west of Albuquerque (Tohajiilee), another is located south of Gallup near Zuni Pueblo (Ramah), and third area is located near Magdalena, New Mexico (Alamo). The Navajo Nation is located within three states and eleven counties Arizona (Apache, Navajo and Coconino Counties) - 11,593,669.39 acres, 65.35 of Navajo Land New Mexico (San Juan, McKinley, Sandoval, Cibola, Bernalillo, Rio Arriba, Socorro Counties) - 4,739,293.37 acres, 27.55 of Navajo Land Utah (San Juan County) - 1,220,846.45 acres, 7.10 of Navajo Land
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Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation is bigger than 10 states - West Virginia, Maryland, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island. The Navajo Nation is larger than 18 countries of the world such as ALBANIA, 11,000 square miles -- BELGIUM, 11,781 square miles -- BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINIA, 19,940 square miles -- COSTA RICA, 19,575 square miles -- CROATIA, 22,050 square miles -- DENMARK, 16,629 square miles -- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 18,704 square miles -- ISRAEL, 7,847 square miles -- KUWAIT, 6,532 square miles -- LATVIA, 24,595 square miles -- LEBANON, 4,015 square miles -- LITHUANIA, 25,174 square miles -- MACEDONIA, 9,889 square miles --NETHERLANDS, 15,892 square miles -- RWANDA, 10,169 square miles -- SWITZERLAND, 15,943 square miles -- TAIWAN, 13,971 square miles.
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Navajo Nation
Within Navajo land, there are 2,000 square miles of mountains, 10,000 square miles of mesas, 15,000 square miles of deserts, 12 major lakes and more than 15 national monuments, tribal parks and historic sites.
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Navajo Nation
Navajo There are several things that are important. These are our livestock, our sheep, our land and our water. These hold the family together and make it strong.
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Navajo Nation
1849 US TREATY WITH SOME OF THE NAVAJOS Sept 9, 1849, 9 Stat. 974, Ratified Sept 9, 1850, Proclaimed Sept. 24, 1850 ". . . we returned to the valley of the Chella Canon de Chelly, which we found to be a wide rich valley . . . Their crop consists of wheat, Indian corn, beans, pumpkins and mellons. They have also fine peaches that grow abundantly and of a superior quality. Henry L. Dodge,Indian Agent,Santa Fe Weekly Gazette, 1853
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Navajo Nation
1864 - 1868 36th, 37th, 38th Congress Abraham Lincoln is the 16th President The long walk to Bosque Redondo - ?Navajos are captive on New Mexico reservation. Navajo appears in congressional records
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Navajo Nation
1868 40th Congress, Andrew Johnson is the 17th President of the United States. Appropriations of 21,000 to individuals held in captivity/slavery Captives at Fort Sumner received 0.11 each for rations Women and children who worked were paid. Appropriations went directly to Navajos. Treaty between the Navajos and the United States concluded June 1, 1868, ratified July 25, 1868, proclaimed August 12, 1868 1869 41st Congress, Ulysses S. Grant is the 18th President Treaty begins appropriations for Navajo. 1st appropriations 40,000 for 8,000 Navajos _at_ 5.00 each for seeds, implements, clothing, and other raw materials. Indian Affairs was created to manage tribes in fulfillment of treaties.
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Navajo Nation
1920 US Congress - Indian Appropriation Bill Water Navajo and Hopi Indians 30,000 Ganado Irrigation 3,000 Treaties with Navajos 100,000 Land for Navajos New Mexico 102,250 1921 US Congress - Indian Appropriation Bill Water Navajo and Hopi Indians 40,000 Ganado Irrigation 3,500 Treaties with Navajos 100,000 Land for Navajos New Mexico 129,250
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Water Development Strategy
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Regional Water Projects
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Arizona Water Budget for Navajo
Category 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100
DCM 34,767 48,253 61,647 76,851 95,534 118,759 147,630 183,520
Industrial 62,923 60,864 60,945 60,970 60,970 60,970 60,970 60,970
Agricultural 36,547 45,488 52,662 59,535 67,435 74,816 77,406 79,631
Miscellaneous 7,018 7,091 7,563 7,636 8,508 8,581 9,381 9,381
                 
TOTAL-AFA 141,255 161,696 182,817 204,992 232,447 263,126 295,387 333,502
Notes 1. Industrial includes NGS use of 34,100
AFA added to the HDR data. 2. Misc. use includes
livestock, stock ponds, evaporation, wildlife,
and recreational use
Source HDR Engineering Inc., Western-Navajo Hopi
Water Supply Needs, Alternatives, and Impacts,
Volume 2, Task 4.1, May 2003
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Municipal Water Demand

• 2000-2050
• Population is based on a 2.48 annual growth
  rate.
• 2051-2110
• Population is based on a 2.20 annual growth
  rate.
• GCPD is a ramped up to 160 GPCD.

Source HDR Engineering Inc., Western-Navajo Hopi
Water Supply Needs, Alternatives, and Impacts,
Volume 2, Task 4.1, May 2003 Table 8
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Industrial, agricultural, and other water demands
Source HDR Engineering Inc., Western-Navajo Hopi
Water Supply Needs, Alternatives, and Impacts,
Volume 2, Task 4.1, May 2003, Table 9 and Table
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Navajo Nation

• US Drought Monitor Report Map for Arizona July
  8, 2010

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Navajo Nation

• Navajo Nation State of Emergency Declaration
  June 29, 2010
• The Navajo Nation Commission on Emergency
  Management Re-Affirms The Drought Declaration
  State of Emergency and Affirms the Continuation
  Of The Drought Declaration Until Such Time It Is
  Rescinded.
• Signatures
• Chairman, Commission On Emergency Management
• President, The Navajo Nation

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Navajo Nation

• Water Hauling Yesterday and Today

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Navajo Nation

• Water is sacred to the Navajo people. Water is
  life. If we honor our spiritual responsibilities
  to Nihima Nahasdzaan (Mother Earth), there will
  be adequate blessings of water for survival. If
  not, there will be hardship.

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Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources Ray
Benally, Director Department of Water
Resources P.O. Box 678 Fort Defiance, AZ
86504 Phone [phone]