Lt Cmdr Melissa De Vera is a recent Flemming Award winner. She helped implement $3.5 billion dollar projects for clean water and improving sanitation for her agency, the Indian Health Services. This from a woman who used to get notes from her mother saying the tap water wasn't clean today.

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