[Military Environmental Forum] GLOBAL, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: "Growing U.S. military footprint in Guam intensifies concerns over environmental damage and sovereignty"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Growing U.S. military footprint in Guam intensifies concerns over environmental damage and sovereignty
Across the island, the U.S. Defense Department has left an environmental legacy of contaminated land and water

by Gaea Cabico
Prism Reports
August 13, 2026

In Yigo, the northernmost village in Guam, there is a well that cannot be shut down.

Known as Y-15, the well sits atop the island’s northern aquifer, which supplies around 80% of the island’s drinking water. Even if contaminants are detected, Y-15 has to keep pumping. There is simply no alternative.

The well also sits just below a hill near Upi Elementary School—attended by around 400 children—and just outside the back gates of Andersen Air Force Base, which hangs over the community like a permanent shadow. Generations of Indigenous CHamoru families have called Yigo home, relying on these waters for drinking, cooking, and other daily activities.

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For the entire article, see
https://prismreports.org/2026/08/13/guam-water-us-miltiary/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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