Tribal Water Rights in Drought-Plagued Western U.S.
This episode again takes us to the Western United States. Anchor Anchor Brock Yordy lays out some of the complex issues surrounding tribal sovereignty and water access amid historic drought.
“It’s been unjust for decades … and those sovereign nations deserve their water,” Yordy says. He walks us through rifts between tribal nations and neighboring communities, the tug-of-water over century-old treaties and water compacts, and how water scarcity complicates it all.