22 OCTOBER 2007 -- COYOTE CANYON, NM: MARK TSOSIE, 78 years old, a member of the Navajo Nation, checks on the piping used in his home made irrigation system in Peach Springs Wash near Coyote Canyon. Tsosie has to haul water from his well to his home and livestock. He has been hauling water all his life. He started working for the railroad when he was 14 years old. His job was to haul water to the workers. Now retired and he's still hauling water except now he hauls it to his home. More than 30 percent of the homes on the Navajo Nation, about the size of West Virginia and the largest Indian reservation in the US, don't have indoor plumbing or a regular supply of domestic water. Many of these homes have to either buy water from commercial vendors or haul water from public wells. A Federal study showed that the total cost of hauling water was about $113 per 1,000 gallons. A Phoenix household, in comparison, pays just $5 a month for up to 7,400 gallons of water. The lack of water on the reservation means the Navajo are among the most miserly users of water in the United States. Families that have to buy or haul water use only about 15 gallons of water per day per person. In Phoenix, by comparison, the average water use is about 170 gallons per day.  Photo by Jack Kurtz