Darlene Arviso delivers clean water to people on a reservation where one-third of the roughly 50,000 households lack it.
The New York Times wrote a wonderful piece on our favorite Water Lady, Darlene Arviso. Darlene provides a life necessity to her people, that they otherwise would have little access to, by delivering clean water to her community in an effort to make life easier for her people.
"They call her the 'water lady,' but she is much more than that. She listens to their desires and afflictions, then helps resolve them, if she can. She is psychiatrist, benefactor and best friend."
On average, Navajo families live on seven gallons of water per day. In drought-stricken California, the average is 362 gallons, according to a 2011 study sponsored by the state’s Department of Water Resources. The average American uses more than 400 gallons a day.
Darlene is committed to her cause and her people, she avoids leaving the reservation as much as she can. “‘I can’t,’ she said as she pulled in the mission’s parking lot mid-afternoon, the truck’s belly empty after 11 deliveries. ‘If I’m not here, who’s going to bring these people their water? Right now, I’m all they’ve got.’”
Darlene works everyday to provide the water to her people, driving her truck around the reservation delivering gallons of water to each home.
Darlene certainly is incredible and her work for for her people is inspiring.
But, there is more to be done. Become a part of DIGDEEP's water project on the Navajo Reservation and help us and Darlene ensure that every American has the water we all need to live with dignity.
http://www.navajowaterproject.org/
