We would encourage you to look at that. Again, I don't think anybody feels like we need to have another study to know that we have a very extensive list when it comes to O&M needs.

If we could finish a project in three years, we would be happy. It just doesn't happen when your building season is really like three months long.

IHS requested $10 million to conduct a nationwide analysis to determine the cost funding for O&M for tribes.

I have been a co-sponsor of Senator Bennet's resolution that clarifies and affirms that the United States' trust responsibility is to ensure water access.

It should shock us as Alaskans. It should shock us as Americans that basic, basic matters like safe water, drinking water, basic sanitation needs are still so unmet in so many places.

Alaskans living in communities without access to running water are five times more likely to be hospitalized for lower respiratory tract infections.

We are seeing some improvement, we are starting to see some gains, connecting homes to sewer and water treatment systems in villages like Akiachak and Stebbins.

According to the IHS, one in ten Native Americans lacks access to clean water or indoor plumbing.

It should shock us as Alaskans. It should shock us as Americans that basic, basic matters like safe water, drinking water, basic sanitation needs are still so unmet in so many places.

Yes, we have been learning a lot, I think just like anybody else who is doing any construction these days, that prices have changed, we are confronting supply challenges just to complete anything or with workforce.

According to the IHS, one in ten Native Americans lacks access to clean water or indoor plumbing.

The federal government has a trust responsibility to protect the water rights of Native peoples.

I want to shift to the issue that you raised, Ms. Davidson.

I want to shift to the issue that you raised, Ms. Davidson.

But I don't want to be in a position where we have finally answered people's prayers by saying, you are going to get all this Federal money, there is a lot in the pipeline, but then we just can't stuff it into the limited capacity pie that…

In Alaska, roughly 20 percent of Native homes don't have an adequate supply of clean water or a connection to a sewer system.

I have been a co-sponsor of Senator Bennet's resolution that clarifies and affirms that the United States' trust responsibility is to ensure water access.

I don't think anybody feels like we need to have another study to know that we have a very extensive list when it comes to O&M needs.