Word: moenkopi
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Gilbert Naseyowna, 76, has been tending sheep and cattle all his life but has only recently had to haul water to his livestock above his village of Moenkopi, where a healthy spring used to flow. "That's why I know the water has disappeared," he says simply. "Something's wrong with the aquifer. I think it's the pumping...
Outside Phoenix, Ariz., in the shadow of Camelback Mountain, stands an ultra-modern $100,000 house made of Moenkopi sandstone that is, by the conservative estimate of its owner, 160 million years old. On the property is a fishpond with a little waterfall. The sound of the waterfall is picked up by a microphone and piped into the house; the owner likes to sleep to its music. In back of the house is a 25-ft. flagpole hooked up to a motor with a photoelectric cell. When the sun rises over the Arizona desert, its light activates the cell, which...
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