Within the settlement, the Navajo Nation will take most of Arizona's share of Colorado River water from the Upper Basin, at 44,700 acre-feet per year. This includes all the water that was used by ...

The Navajo Nation and other tribes were left out of a landmark 1922 treaty that divided the Colorado River between seven U.S. states, and have long protested that states treat them as an ...

The United States never brought the Navajo Nation’s claim to water from the main stem of the Colorado River. Under Winters, Navajo water rights are likely to be enormous. They have been the elephant ...

The Navajo Nation is the largest Indigenous tribe on the Colorado River without defined water rights. Navajo leaders have negotiated with state and federal leaders for decades in an attempt to ...

The river, which is in danger of collapsing under the strain of drought and overuse, runs along the border of the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. But the tribe has never had a right to use that ...

Navajo access to the Little Colorado River is still being adjudicated in state court. With the help of the federal government, the tribe previously settled claims to water from the San Juan ...

Arthur Muñoz says the line trade has been nothing but rewarding for him, and he wants to thank everyone who has believed in ...

The Navajo reservation straddles New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and a large part of the territory, which is roughly the size of West Virginia, borders the Colorado River.

States that rely on water from the over-tapped Colorado River want the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit from the Navajo Nation that could upend how water is shared in the Western U.S.

The Navajo Nation plans legal action against the federal government after the EPA accidentally spilled mine wastewater into the Animas River. CNN values your feedback 1.

A year after 3 million gallons of heavy metal sludge from the shuttered Gold King Mine gushed into a tributary of the Animas River, the Navajo Nation is suing the Environmental Protection Agency ...

The Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation on Thursday in a dispute involving water from the drought-stricken Colorado River. States that draw water from the river — Arizona, Nevada and ...