Contaminated Water in Navajo Communities
Environmental Studies
Devereux Hicks
- Grade:
- 11
- Teacher:
- Carol Seanez
The past century, Navajo communities have been living near harmful substances from uranium mining and industrialization. Navajos and their livestock are exposed to contaminated water which leads to health problems from consumption of the water and consumption of livestock that drink the water.
Very scary results from the data you collected. What steps are being taken to rectify the poor water quality in the areas you tested. You mentioned the water sources were close to oil drilling sites, but in your data it does not show oil contaminates in the water. Good project and thank you for sharing your data relating to this problem.
I think you’re going in the right direction. I’m curious to see what finding you might discover with more time and resources. I like where your heart is at and I hope you continue to pursue science for the sake of others like you have for this project.