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Navajo Nation: 30% Without Access to Regulated Drinking Water
Author(s) -
Lynette Jennifer
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2010.tb10211.x
Subject(s) - navajo , water consumption , consumption (sociology) , environmental planning , uranium mining , water contamination , uranium , contamination , political science , environmental protection , geography , sociology , environmental science , water resource management , ecology , social science , philosophy , linguistics , materials science , biology , metallurgy
In this article, the author discusses the organization of a research project to investigate drinking water issues resulting from uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation. She discusses how this project channeled her educational and professional experience into a deeper understanding of the influences that environmental policies have on different groups of people, the breadth of effects of human water consumption, and the cumulative time and cooperative efforts needed to restore complex contamination sites.