Thursday, Oct 11 2012 5:05PM
At a meeting to discuss the details of the Navajo Gallup Water Supply project, Navajo Nation president Ben Shelly commented that he wants the majority of the employees hired on to work on the project to be tribe members.
At a meeting to discuss the details of the Navajo Gallup Water Supply project, Navajo Nation president Ben Shelly commented that he wants the majority of hired project employees to be tribe members.
Shelly met with the Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar at the Navajo Division of Transportation Complex in Arizona, where he spoke of the importance this project could have for the tribe and its economic development.
"I want to see 98 percent of the workers be Navajo," Shelly said at the meeting, according to Indian Country Today Media Network.
The project is expected to provide residents of the Navajo reservations with additional clean water resources. Additionally, job creation from the project - roughly 600 positions - is projected to help tribes facing other issues, including inadequate affordable housing and high-priced utilities.
More than 43 tribe chapters are struggling without a quality groundwater supply, and temporary solutions have failed to provide residents with much improvement. The news source reports the DOI provided $43 million for the project.
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