NAVAJO NATION (KRQE) – The rural nature of ranching and water access on the Navajo Nation has led to challenges with overgrazing for decades. But now, a new tech-focused effort between a New Mexico business and Sandia National Laboratories is helping tackle the problem. "The ranchers are so rural and remote it was hard for them to haul water, they've been doing this for decades," said Myron Lizer, former Vice President of Navajo Nation. Story continues below Crime: New lawsuit claims CYFD could have prevented toddler’s death Community: New Mexico crews share experience of helping fight California wildfires National: United Airlines flight returns to O’Hare after hitting coyote during takeoff Relying on old technology has made hard work for New Mexico ranchers on the Navajo Nation across generations. Farmers have relied on old windmills to draw water from the ground in remote locations while cattle walk miles to get a drink or farmers haul that water to them. "The problem is they have vast land and lots of grass that's not at that location, so they overgraze that area. That water needs to be distributed and the way to do that requires a lot of engineering," said Brian Dwyer. Sandia National Labs recently partnered with New Mexico State University to help a small New Mexico company build new technology to help. Remote Well Solutions planned, designed, and installed an innovative off-the-grid water system. "This is all automated, it's solar only. There's no batteries, there's no transmitters, no receivers, no radios it's all solar," said Mike Lisk owner of Remote Well Solutions. Lisk said under their system, water is pumped into a storage tank and then is distributed throughout the land using a remote-controlled system with a gravity-fed network of piping. It was a project former Navajo Nation former Vice President Myron Lizer pushed for and got funded through a $25 million federal grant. "What really helped early on was I knew the ranchers. They were there the first meeting, they were like 'we support this' already," said Lizer. Four systems have now been installed across San Juan and McKinley counties. "Some of them have gotten very emotional and when you see a 60-year-old man get emotional because that whole burden is gone. Yeah, it's gotten a lot deeper than just a business effort, it's very rewarding," said Lisk. The Navajo Nation is looking to install 33 more of the solar-water systems over the next few years while the Laguna Pueblo is also hoping to install two systems by May.