A Nation Without Water
I woke up this morning and turned on the lights, took a shower, brushed my teeth, and filled my water bottle for work. For me, it is routine. For others, it is the dream. I knew that the Navajo reservation had poverty and I knew that some people didn't have running water or electricity, but what I did not know was how prevalent it was. Last weekend in the town of Silver Lake, New Mexico, 90% of the people I met did not have at least one of the following: running water, indoor plumbing, and/or electricity. Many people did not have any of those things. You would not guess it if you saw them and sat down to lunch together. The Navajo are a proud and beautiful people group. They care for themselves and others and make little to no mention of the hardships they face. But when you take the time to get to know people, stories emerge. Stories of using the canyon as a bathroom or walking to the outhouse in the dead of winter. Stories of hauling barrels of water to use for washing and