Comments on: McCain, Kyl to talk water rights with tribes today http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/05/mccain-kyl-to-talk-water-rights-with-tribes-today/ Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics Fri, 24 May 2013 20:26:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cavin Holiday http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/05/mccain-kyl-to-talk-water-rights-with-tribes-today/comment-page-1/#comment-71721 Cavin Holiday Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:26:35 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/05/mccain-kyl-to-talk-water-rights-with-tribes-today/#comment-71721 ‎"S.2109 asks the Navajo and Hopi peoples to waive their priority Water Rights to the surface waters of the Little Colorado River ...... “from time immemorial and thereafter, forever” ............. in return for the shallow promise of uncertain federal appropriations to supply minimal amounts of drinking water to a handful of reservation communities. The Bill -- and the ‘Settlement Agreement” it ratifies – do not quantify Navajo and Hopi water rights – the foundation of all other southwestern Indian Water Rights settlements to date – thereby denying the Tribes the economic market value of their water rights, and forcing them into perpetual dependence on uncertain federal funding for any water projects." ‎”S.2109 asks the Navajo and Hopi peoples to waive their priority Water Rights to the surface waters of the Little Colorado River …… “from time immemorial and thereafter, forever” …………. in return for the shallow promise of uncertain federal appropriations to supply minimal amounts of drinking water to a handful of reservation communities.

The Bill — and the ‘Settlement Agreement” it ratifies – do not quantify Navajo and Hopi water rights – the foundation of all other southwestern Indian Water Rights settlements to date – thereby denying the Tribes the economic market value of their water rights, and forcing them into perpetual dependence on uncertain federal funding for any water projects.”

]]> By: IndianNtheCupboard http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/05/mccain-kyl-to-talk-water-rights-with-tribes-today/comment-page-1/#comment-71720 IndianNtheCupboard Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:45:13 +0000 http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/05/mccain-kyl-to-talk-water-rights-with-tribes-today/#comment-71720 Don't do it! The man is only in it for his own interests. Not ours! Don’t do it! The man is only in it for his own interests. Not ours!

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