Arizona Public Media reports that as water supplies continue to dwindle in the West, Senator Mark Kelly recently introduced a bill that would allow central Arizona’s Colorado River Indian Tribes to lease portions of their Colorado River shares to other parts of the state. The Colorado River Indian Tribes are a single tribal nation made up of 4,000 Chemehuevi, Mojave, Hopi, and Navajo members who live along the river in California and Arizona. The tribe recently made a statement that the legislation would protect Arizona and allow the tribe to benefit from its water rights for the first time in more than a century.
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