Tribes without clean water demand an end to decades of US government neglect

US has broken promises as Indigenous Americans lack access to safe water, a crisis worsened by Covid-19

The US government's haphazard approach to providing Indigenous American tribes with clean drinking water and sanitation must be radically transformed to tackle decades of underfunding and neglect, according to a new report.

An estimated one in 10 Indigenous Americans lack access to safe tap water or basic sanitation - without which a host of health conditions including Covid-19, diabetes, and gastrointestinal disease are more likely.