Northern Arizona Water Affordability Study

Access to safe, reliable, affordable drinking water is the foundation of public health, economic opportunity, and quality of life in any community. Yet, significant challenges associated with providing and maintaining this access exist across Arizona, perhaps most acutely on Native American reservations and in small, physically isolated rural communities across the state. Northern Arizona in particular is known for its isolated, rural areas and for the challenges faced by the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, and other tribal and rural communities in developing and maintaining access to safe, reliable drinking water.

In this paper water affordability is described and analyzed for tribal and non-tribal communities across Northern Arizona with the hope that the information can be useful to these utilities and groups.