Stephanie Keith

Photographer
    
The Drying West: Navajo Water
Public Project
The Drying West: Navajo Water
Copyright Stephanie Keith 2024
Updated Jan 2021
Topics Animals, Arizona, Climate Change, Documentary, Environment, Family, Native American, Navajo, Photography, Photojournalism, Poverty, Water
         Two decades into a severe drought on the Navajo reservation, the open range around Maybelle Sloan’s sheep farm stretches out in a brown expanse of earth and sagebrush.
         A dry wind blows dust across the high-desert plateau, smoke from wildfires in Arizona and California shrouding the nearby rim of the Grand Canyon.
         The summer monsoon rains have failed again, and stock ponds meant to collect rainwater for the hot summer months are dry.
         The Navajo Nation – covering a 27,000 square mile area straddling the U.S. states of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah -- competes with growing cities including Phoenix and Los Angeles for its water supply.
             And as climate change dries out the U.S. West, that supply is becoming increasingly precarious.

2,138

Also by Stephanie Keith —

Project

Apache tribe marches to protect sacred Arizona site from copper mine

Stephanie Keith
Project

Killing the Black Snake: Resistance at Standing Rock

Stephanie Keith
Project

Vodou Brooklyn: Gede

Stephanie Keith
Project

Cuba: Santeria

Stephanie Keith / Havana
The Drying West: Navajo Water by Stephanie Keith
Sign-up for
For more access