Faith O’Connor, of the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes, stands next to her family’s 1997 Ford F-150 looking out into her family’s 3,000-acre drought-stricken land outside Poplar, Montana. After years of living on the Fort Peck reservation, O’Connor can’t remember a time when her family had reliable access to potable water for personal use. O’Connor said her family is fortunate to have tapped into the tribe’s rural water supply system after years of battling drought and a lack of potable water. The Fort Peck reservation sits on the north-eastern tip of Montana where severe drought has become more prevalent over the years. Access to clean water has become harder due to extreme drought, particularly in Native communities such as Fort Peck and across the West where climate change continues to disproportionately affect communities of color.