Speaker: Crystal Tulley-Cordova, Principal Hydrologist, Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources - Water Management Branch Navajo Nation

Seminar: Securing the Navajo Nation's Water Future through Tribal Water Rights Settlements
 

Abstract
One in three households in the Navajo Nation lacks access to clean water and sanitation facilities. The Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources works to secure, protect, and manage water resources for the largest land-based and populated tribe in the United States. The Department is diversifying the Navajo Nation's water portfolio and interconnecting public water systems. Water rights settlements have been critical to securing the Navajo Nation's water future.
 

Bio
Crystal Tulley-Cordova, PhD, MWR, is a Principal Hydrologist in the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources - Water Management Branch.  Crystal currently works to secure water rights and develop water infrastructure projects for the Navajo Nation. She also works on protecting the Navajo Nation's water rights in the Colorado River Basin. She has worked collaboratively with Navajo Nation partners on water-related research focused on precipitation variability, groundwater sustainability, and watershed studies since 2013.