United States’ Trust Duty For Navajo Nation Water Argued Before Supreme Court

Mealey's (March 20, 2023, 2:11 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the Southwest United States experiencing extreme drought conditions at a time when the average Navajo Nation resident in Arizona uses only 7 gallons of water a day, the federal government needs to exercise its treaty-promised trust duty to the tribe to see if it can obtain water from the lower Colorado River, an attorney for the tribe told the U.S. Supreme Court March 20 in a long-running water rights dispute....

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