These areas with poor access to clean water reveal who’s taking the hit from the growing water crisis.
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00:00I am a mother of two. I live in a community called Cameron in Northern Arizona on the Navajo Nation.
00:06I've lived here majority of my life and all the times that I've been here I have never had running water.
00:30We need some more water because I usually use about two of these nice and warm. The other one is here.
00:54So I'm going to get some water from outside. This is what we haul water in. It's going to be cold water.
01:01So we have the both of those warming up. I use a five gallon bucket of warm water. I don't fill it all the way up.
01:09It only goes about to two and a half gallons and that's all I use.
01:13Daily I pretty much have to ration out. I've learned to use less and less all the time.
01:17Quicker showers.
02:47I'm a mom. I'm a grandmother. We struggled with our safe drinking water for a few years.
03:09It was a bad experience for me and my family where we were spending a lot of money buying water bottles for our families to have safe drinking water at home.
03:18We had to also buy water to cook and it was so unaffordable and it was very inconvenient for our families.
03:25It's something that needs to be a solution as soon as possible for everybody.