Water Delivery #7 (2025)

Last year, DigDeep's Navajo Water Project team brought clean water to more than 350 households. They expanded into 10 new communities across the Navajo Nation and installed more than 170 off-grid Home Water Systems – shattering their previous record of 99 systems in a single year. These solar-powered tanks, connected to household plumbing and serviced by our water truck fleet, are ending decades of water hauling and transforming Navajo lives. 

How it works – DigDeep’s Home Water System is an off-grid solution that brings hot and cold running water to homes without access to water or sewer lines. Each system consists of a 1,200-gallon cistern buried underground, a water pump, a pressure tank, a water heater, a water filter, a deep-basin sink, and a drain field. Depending on whether a home is connected to the power grid, trained and certified Navajo technicians install either an electric pump or solar pump system. They fill home water systems cisterns with water monthly. In 2023, the team completed over 3,100 water deliveries (millions of gallons of water!), showcasing our growing capacity to serve remote Navajo communities. These deliveries are essential for sustaining the functionality of the systems and ensuring consistent access to clean, running water at home. Support of this project also covers the operational expenses of vehicle maintenance, fuel, and insurance of our water trucks, to enable this critical work.