Faced With US Heat Waves, The Navajo Push For Power -- And A/C

Source: International Business Times

Christine Shorty, 70, turns on a light for the first time in her home after it was connected to the power grid AFP Workmen plant electricity poles in the rust-orange earth of the Navajo Nation and run cables to Christine Shorty's house -- finally giving her power against the searing Arizona desert heat. It will be a luxury in the vast Native American reservation, the largest in the United States, where more than 10,000 families are still without electricity and therefore air conditioning. "It's climate change.