From Flagstaff to Flint -Some of our Communities Cant Drink Their Own Water

p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0in;"font color="#222222"ldquo;font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Some of our communities canrsquo;t even drink their own water because itrsquo;s so poisonousrdquo; said Klee Benally, a Dine revolutionary who works all over America but lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. Klee has done work to protect the San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff from becoming a ski resort. But, the government went along with it anyways./font/font/font/p p style="font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0in;"span class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"In Flagstaff, Arizona among the drywallnbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;plaster buildings heaped together to form a reservation is the amazing place that is called Taala Hooghan Infoshop. That is where we stayed for one nightnbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;interviewed its founder, Klee Benally. Taala Hooghan was founded in October 25, 2007nbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;they give classes on the reservation on how to do medianbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;artnbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;write with youthnbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;adults./font/font/font/span/p p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0in;"font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"The San Francisco Peaks glisten with fake snow in the afternoon sunlight. The Arizona snow bowl is the company that profits off of this destruction of mother earth. The Arizona Snow Bowl is a ski resort that resides on the San Francisco Peaks. They use the toilet water from Flagstaff to keep the snow going all year long. Then the snow meltsnbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;runs into the riversnbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;streams where people get their drinking water./font/font/font/p p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0in;"font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Another reason that people shouldnrsquo;t drink or bathe in this water is because of the mountain mines all around Arizona. These mines, too deep for human exposure, use drills that push water into the earth in order to force the things upward that they need./font/font/font/p p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0in;"font color="#222222"font face="Times New Roman, serif"font size="3"Then they dispose of the water by putting it in the pipes of the people who live in the cities under them. The bad part about this is that 99% of the time the water has extra chemical runoff. Another thing is that they do not test for the pharmaceuticalsnbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;drugs. The runoff is comprised of chemicals like uranium, copper, tanzanitenbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;iron. All of those things are proven to cause birth defects, cancernbsp;span class="il"and/spannbsp;many other horrible diseases./font/font/font/p