$6 7B bill could get clean drinking water to Native American tribes
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On May 10 the Teton School District 401 Board of Trustees agreed to allow the Teton Valley Food Pantry to rent the district-owned vacant building on the corner of Ross Avenue and 1st Street in Driggs.
The Teton Valley Food Pantry has moved several times in its 13 years of existence. The nonprofit currently rents a space in the Teton Business and Education Center north of Driggs; prior to 2019, the pantry was located in a small house on 1st Street in Driggs.
TVFP board member and volunteer Anne Fortier explained to the school board the pantryâs need for more space. In 2018 the nonprofit served 474 households; in 2020, with the economic impact of Covid on the community, almost 4,000 households received food donations.
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Kevin Blackhorse lives on the Navajo Nation, just outside of Bluff. He said he comes into town twice a week to fill up his 270 gallon water tank at the gas station.
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a clear connection between access to clean water and public health, according to Navajo tribal member Bidtah Becker.
Becker is part of a group called the Water & Tribes Initiative that advocates for water access in Indian Country. She said the pandemic has made it easier to ask Congress for money to solve the problem.
“The conversation has shifted from, ‘Oh no, you could never get that amount of money.’ And there’s always a little subtext of, ‘Are you really deserving of that money?’” she said. “Now it’s like, ‘Yes. Everybody needs clean drinking water. No questions asked.”