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The boundaries of the Navajo Nation and its environs Water and public health Water is so central to the fight against infectious disease that nearly every infectious disease can be characterized based on its relationship to water. The Navajo Nation, COVID-19, and water The COVID-19 crisis has been particularly devastating for the people of the Navajo Nation, a sovereign indigenous nation of around 175,000 people that has had over 4000 cases, more per 100,000 than New York City. Federal legislation in 1952, the McCarran Amendment (43 USC §666, [1]), waived the sovereign immunity of federal and tribal parties in these sorts of large-scale, basin-wide water rights adjudications, requiring tribal and federal parties to litigate their water rights in state courts. By pursuing litigation instead of settlement, the Navajo Nation risk a lower quantification of their water rights and losing leverage to secure funds to improve water access to address the Red Agenda. [Extracted from the article] |
