This walk-through now lives in the hub. Everything here — the lessons, the record, the actions — is gathered in one place: The Water Hub →
LEARNING MISSION
The Water Hub
Everything on this topic
Read the record: Boil snow — what 40 of 42 candidates said · Candidates side by side: Infrastructure — candidates side by side · Learn the system: Infrastructure 101 · This page: The guided mission
Why this guide matters
Water is life — Tó éí ííná. Who controls it, who hauls it, and what the settlements actually say shape every household; a community that can read a water settlement cannot be talked past.
How we’ll know it’s working
Honest, countable signs only: questions submitted · instruments gathering answers · pages read and rated useful · and more people who can explain how these decisions actually get made. Counts publish, dated, on Community Findings.
D · Draft — not verified Not line-checked against the Navajo Nation Code. How we verify →
Data & your voice
Surveys, by subject · the results so far · Where’s the data? — every mission runs on what the community measures.
A third of homes hauling water, contamination plumes under communities, and a jurisdiction maze deciding who fixes what — water runs under nearly every other issue on the Nation. This Learning Mission maps the system, the responsible offices, and what the candidates propose. The outcome: a citizen who knows whose door a water problem belongs to.
Step 1 — Learn the system
The foundation
Learning — start here
1. Infrastructure 101: Roads, Water & Broadband — who owns which system and why projects stall.
2. Who’s in Charge? — the water doors: NTUA for utility lines, chapters for local projects, NNEPA for environmental protection, and the federal side for uranium legacy cleanup.
3. Why People Stay Sick — water as a root cause of health outcomes.
Step 2 — The live problems
The interviews carry water throughout: contamination raised on the record (a plume under Little Water from past gas drilling, in one candidate’s account), NTUA rate hikes and the utility-choice question, and stalled chapter waterline projects. The Infrastructure issue page gathers what candidates said, and Resources carries the official links — including the EPA’s Navajo uranium-cleanup pages.
Step 3 — Consult the record
What the candidates say
Community — the Consult stage
The comparison page’s Infrastructure topic puts candidates side by side with private judging tools.
Step 4 — Test yourself, then act
Play Which Jurisdiction Is It? — water questions are its home turf. A local water concern starts at the chapter, with the complaint pathways.
Contribute
Water observations from your community are exactly the patterns that become missions: share them. Progress lives on My Civic Journey.
Goes with: The Runaround · Land, Grazing & Homesite Leases 101
Related
All guides · Accountability · Civic Academy · My Civic Journey
The law behind this guide
Title 22 — Water is in the published Code. Nobody on this project has read it. Title 16 — Land is not in the published Code at all.
What we found
Hauling water is not a legal problem. It is a scarcity problem — distance, cost, and federal underfunding. No statute fixes it.
How we’ll know it worked
When this page can cite Title 22, and when a volunteer has read it.