The global economy is moving in frightening new directions. Floods and droughts are reaching unpredictabele new extremes. Markets are convulsed with uncertainty. But there is one constant: water. It provides the continuity and reassurance in a changing world. The infrastructure and technologies we use to manage water can provide solutions to the challenges the world is facing today. 
Water Project of the year shows the greatest innovation in terms of optimizing its physical or environmental footprint.
Awards will be given at the Global Water Summit May 8-10 2023.
Airline Ambassadors was proud to nominate the Clean Water Foundation led by Leon McLaughlin who initiated support to the Hopi and Navajo Nations and has been tirelessly committed to this cause and Ernest Taho who has been installing the filters on the reservation. See Nomination letter below:
Airline Ambassadors International nominates the Clean Water Foundation as the 2022 Water Project of the Year.
Together we have worked to provide clean, fresh drinking water for the Hopi & Navajo tribes in Arizona. Their water has been tainted with deadly chemicals as a result of strip mines on the reservations from 1965 – 2019. Every time it rains highly toxic levels of uranium and arsenic enter their aquafers – Arsenic levels are 2 to 4 times higher than the level which the Environmental Protection Agency deems safe. These indigenous nations have seen dramatic rises in diabetes and cancer in not only their elders, but the youth as well. Residents on the reservations must drive up to 4 hours to obtain clean drinking water.
To bring global attention to this issue we provided a virtual concert on World Water Day 2022 and $502.600 – half a MILLION dollars were generated to support these communities. We must join together and protect The Hopi & Navajo peoples who have been protecting our planet Earth for hundreds of years.
This has been a fully grassroots effort and being highlighted as the Water Project of the year would bring wider attention to this problem.
See these LINKS:
https://airlineamb.org/test/saving-lives-in-hopiland-2/
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/water4hopi/
https://airlineamb.org/test/installations-of-filters-in-hopiland/
https://airlineamb.org/test/providence-supports-hopi-and-navajo-nations-with-ppe/
https://airlineamb.org/test/sponsorship-clean-water-for-hopi/
https://airlineamb.org/test/sedona-update-re-hopi-project/
https://airlineamb.org/test/world-water-day/
