Natalie Koch: 'This year The Arizona Republic published a report showing that the Arizona State Land Department has been leasing 3,500 acres of public land to Almarai for a suspiciously low price.'
A cooling mist regulates the temperature at the Almarai dairy in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 29, 2016. The government has dictated that dairies must phase out local feed production because water is so scarce.Arizona’s water is running worryingly low. Amid the worst drought in, which has left communities across the state with barren wells, the state is depleting what remains of its precious groundwater.
The case has prompted calls for an investigation into how a foreign company wound up taking the state’s dwindling water supplies for a fee that might be as low as one-sixth the market rate. But the focus on the Saudi scheme obscures a more fundamental problem: pumping groundwater in Arizona remains largely unregulated. It’s this legal failing that, in part, allows the Saudi company to draw unlimited amounts of water to grow an alfalfa crop that feeds dairy cows 8,000 miles away.
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