Navajo Nation rancher George Tso has been involved in farming his entire life, from helping his father sell his alfalfa crops to ranchers to working on his nine square miles of ranch in Farmington, New Mexico. I came.

Tso has plenty of room for additional cows beyond the 51 cows he currently maintains, but his biggest obstacle is water. His land’s only source of water is on the south side of the ranch, but the best pasture for his cattle is on the north side.

“If you have one person drinking water there, you can’t raise cattle,” says Tso. “I kept nagging[to the Navajo government]that I needed water, but they told me to cut the cows by 10 percent, so I did. doesn’t want to go there to eat.”