"Supai Village, Arizona -- The Havasupai are attempting to fight back against the operation of a uranium mine that they say could contaminate their sole water source".
"Ed Tilousi knelt down next to the crystal-clear turquoise creek. The only sounds were the gurgling of the current and the sawing of cicadas in a pecan nut tree as the hot sun made the red rock canyon walls towering above him glow.
Downstream, the creek becomes a 100ft-high waterfall, tumbling into a brilliant blue pool then making more cascades before it empties into the Colorado river running through the Grand Canyon.
“The water talks to us, it has a voice you can hear all the time. We drink it, we depend on it. If it gets poisoned we are finished,” he said.
Tilousi is vice-chairman of the Havasupai Native Americans, a tiny community and the only one that lives within the depths of the Grand Canyon."
Joanna Walters reports for the Guardian July 17, 2017.
"In the Grand Canyon, Uranium Mining Threatens A Tribe's Survival"
Source: Guardian, 07/17/2017
