1. Changing Waters: Adaptation and Resilience and the Navajo Nation
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Changing Waters: Adaptation and Resilience and the Navajo Nation
Albuquerque, NM
January 12, 2012
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2. It is about the People.

3. It is about the People.

4. Unemployment Rates

5. Per Capita Income

6. Navajo Nation Perspective
The lack of infrastructure, the lack of economic development and the sustained poverty are closely connected.
Families can not find their livelihoods here.
Climate Variability is making things tougher.

7. Colorado River Basin
Allocates 50,000 acre-feet of consumptive use to Arizona in Upper Basin
Apportions water to the Upper Basin States:
Colorado %
New Mexico 11.25%
Utah %
Wyoming %
Note: The Hydrologic Determination in 1989
shows the Upper Basin as having a firm
yield of 6.0 million acre-feet per year
once downstream Compact delivery
obligations are accounted for.

8. Recent Changes in Average Annual Temperature for the Navajo Nation
Changes in Average Annual Temperature for the Navajo Nation (Degrees F)
Location
Historic
Recent
(Since the 1960's)
( )
Chinlee, AZ
51.6
55.5
Farmington, NM
53.9
Lees Ferry, AZ
62.2
64.0
Tuba City, AZ
55.0
58.1
Shiprock, NM
53.3
56.3
Wupatki, AZ
57.3
58.8

12. Regional Navajo Projects

14. April 3, 2009 3:00 pm, Windstorm, Tuba City

15. May 20, 2009 Windstorm, Red Mesa

16. Kayenta, AZ 2004
How do you adapt to this?

17. A layer of dust on Mount Sopris in Colorado’s Elk Range in 2007
A layer of dust on Mount Sopris in Colorado’s Elk Range in What’s the connection?
Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center/Penn Newhard as presented by Morgan Phillips, Colorado Climate Center

18. Kayenta AZ, September 2003

19. Is There a Sense of Urgency?
Education
Tribal Programs
Tribal Leadership
Tribal Members
Non-Tribal Partners
Strengthen Tribal Programs
Support Natural Resource Programs
Climate Networks
Drought Response and Mitigation
Watershed Programs

20. Is There a Sense of Urgency?
Demonstration Projects
Dune Stabilization
Watershed Restoration
Land Use Management
Impact Assessments
Impacts of the Colorado River Basinwide Study
What will it conclude?
Will it result is useful recommendations?
Will it result in useful actions?

22. It is about the People.