Worries about future water supplies from ancient aquifers are bubbling up in western rural Arizona. Some neighbors complain that their backyard wells have dried up since an Emirati agribusiness began farming alfalfa nearby.
  • teft@startrek.website
    23·
    7 months ago

    1, why are they growing crops in a desert?

    2, why are you not regulating water usage in a desert?

    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
      12·
      7 months ago

      Actual answer, Corrupt politicians made a deal with them to allow unregulated usage of water. The Arizona desert isn’t the Sahara, things grow. Lots of sun, fertile soil. The problem is evaporation! If you can keep it moist, it will grow like crazy.

  • netburnr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    The best part is these crops aren’t even for the US, it’s all shipped to rich Saudies. This is the same thing starting to kill Lake Mead