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Guardians of Water

December 31st marks many great events in history, from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, to the resignation of Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia in 1999, it therefore, comes as no surprise that yet another great event is to transpire on December 31 of 2005, not over seas, but in the heart of America's very own Hopi Reservation. For the 31st of December is to mark the closure of Peabody Coal Company's Mohave Generating Station, a station that has exploited, daily, over 3.3 million gallons of pure groundwater for the past 30 years from the Hopi and Navajo Aquifer, slurrying their coal harvest 273 miles north to Laughlin, Nevada. However, in those 30 years, Mohave Generating Station and Peabody Coal Company have provided more than 42 percent of the Hopi Tribal income, over 8 million dollars annually, enabling the Hopi tribe to establish educational scholarships for its youth, better healthcare for its elderly, and compensation for its war veterans.......

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