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Indigenous women bring leadership, creativity & joy to clean water action (commentary)

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Writing for Indigenous Peoples Day, water-access consultant Justine Apodaca credits Indigenous women with driving progress on clean water access, citing colleagues Emma Robbins and Crystal Tulley-Cordova and the Navajo Water Access Coordination Group she helps coordinate.

The piece notes women remain underrepresented in water governance, making up less than a third of voices in the field, even as the author argues their relationship-building and technical work quietly advances tribal water access projects.

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