The Navaho Nation was hit hard by the Covid-19 outbreak largely due to the fact that tribal members routinely haul water from facilities as far away as Gallup.

The Navaho Nation was hit hard by the Covid-19 outbreak largely due to the fact that tribal members routinely haul water from facilities as far away as Gallup. They haul water because the wells beneath their land pose an extreme health risk as the article points out. The article however, does not point out why those wells are contaminated. Nor does the project mention it. They are contaminated because of all the rogue, illegal, unsafe, and exploitative uranium mining done during the Cold War. The problem of contamination is so bad that over 40% of tribal members are forced to haul water. It's a disgrace that the problem exists in this form, but it's worse to consider all the heartache and suffering that had to occur before determining the illnesses and birth defects were caused by the water.