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There is hope now : Well project in western Navajo Nation gives families a new water supply
Shondiin Silversmith, Arizona Republic
Walking along the run-down wire fence of her family s farm plot, Eileen Tohonnie recalls a time when her family was able to plant every spring.
The family s plot sits along the Little Colorado River in Black Falls, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. Black Falls is about an hour north of Flagstaff, near Wupatki National Monument. 
Tohonnie, 59, said her mother loved to plant corn, and when the river was flowing, her older brother Ronald Tohonnie would help pump water for their crops directly from the river. In months when water wasn t flowing, the family could easily dig to the water table.  ....

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