#Water pumped from deep underground helps #alfalfa grow at the Saudi-owned Fondomonte farm in the Butler Valley, in western Arizona
Saudi Arabia bans industrial scale farming of alfalfa, to protect its limited water supplies.
So they grow it in a #US desert and ship it back home, using AZ’s scarce water.
Perspective: The prior republican admin even blocked efforts to track the amount of water being used. #Arizona get saudi the fuck out.
#natsec
🎁: read it free
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/16/fondomonte-arizona-drought-saudi-farm-water/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQ5ODUwMjE4IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4OTQ4MDAwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY5MDc3NTk5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg5NDgwMDAwLCJqdGkiOiIzMDBhZTc5MC0wOWY3LTRkYWUtODhkNi04YTNkNDY4YzNmNzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMy8wNy8xNi9mb25kb21vbnRlLWFyaXpvbmEtZHJvdWdodC1zYXVkaS1mYXJtLXdhdGVyLyJ9.ez1ful0d3x4JvXNTYEs9s_7X3dWsNEh_iuxAmSfY9Zg
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