Aging water systems leak trillions of gallons, leaving residents in some of the country’s poorest communities with a substantial financial burden to fix them.
Malynndra Tome was helping to map livestock ponds in the Navajo Nation when she saw something that inspired her to act. An elderly woman was filling milk jugs with water at the back of a gas station in the Native American reservation, where about 30% of people live without running water.
