UTAH — For the past 20 years, Henry Wilson has been forced to travel several miles, multiple times a day, to get water for his family in Monument Valley, Utah.
By the time the sun rises above the red sandstone pillars, Wilson is on his way to a nearby well. But on one day in particular, he arrived much later than he hoped.
"We pray with the water; we bless ourselves with water...Water is something really special to us. That's the only thing we have in life," Wilson's wife, Eloise, told ABC News' Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott. The family has found creative ways to preserve water -- from keeping a pitcher on the dining room table with the allotted amount for the day, to collecting rainwater during storms to feed their livestock.
"Washing up, I usually just, you know, put up a big pot of water and put it on the stove and heat it up like that until I get hot and mixed with a little bit of cold water and be warm for my littles to bathe in," she added. “I feel that there has been a breach of trust with our federal government,” Davina Smith, a Democratic candidate for Utah’s House Representative, told ABC News. As a Diné woman who grew up on the Navajo reservation, Smith says she would like to see state and federal lawmakers advocate and invest in water resources for native communities.
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