Waiting for Water: Tribes’ Fight for a Promised Resource

For ProPublica:

A multi-part series.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1908 that tribes with reservations have a right to water. But ProPublica and High Country News found that in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin they face unique obstacles: a state that aggressively opposes them, a process that sometimes doesn’t provide infrastructure to access water and growing competition from other users.

How Arizona Stands Between Tribes and Their Water
(Honorable mention, 2024 Best Feature Story, Indigenous Journalists Association)

Supreme Court Keeps Navajo Nation Waiting for Water

The Colorado River Flooded Chemehuevi Land. Decades Later, the Tribe Still Struggles to Take Its Share of Water

In Arizona Water Ruling, the Hopi Tribe Sees Limits on Its Future