Navajo Nation
Navajo Nation
Navajo Nation
~1/3 of Navajo households lack access to running water. Most cannot use groundwater, because it's been contaminated by decades of uranium mining. That forces people to haul-in safe water from long distances.
Pappy's up early and headed to Tuba City, with a quick Pappy Plunge in the Little Colorado River along the way.Then sitting down to learn about dry farming - how Hopi and Navajo farmers have grown food in the desert for generations without irrigation. He's stopping by Cameron School and then spending time with DigDeep's Navajo Water Project team, who are working to bring running water to the 1 in 3 Navajo Nation households that still don't have it.The day ends around a kitchen table - talking with a family who just got their first water hookup. Because that's what this whole trip is about: clean water, for everyone.
Pappy's rolling out of Flagstaff at sunrise, folks - three hours east to Chinle, in the heart of the Navajo Nation.Today's all about the land and who takes care of it. He's learning how the Navajo Nation and the National Park Service work together to manage Canyon de Chelly - one of the only national monuments where families still live and farm on the canyon floor, as they have for generations.Then he's heading down into the canyon itself to hear what it takes to grow food where water is precious and, of course, to take a Pappy Plunge in the canyon riverbed.