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Re: dexprs post# 102259

Friday, 08/19/2022 7:42:19 PM

Friday, August 19, 2022 7:42:19 PM

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More on Arizona losing 21% of it's annual water allotment from the Colorado River, a loss of 592,000 acre-feet.


How is the far-right wing State of Arizona using their limited underground water ? - https://azpbs.org/horizon/2022/06/saudi-water-deal-threatening-water-supply-in-phoenix/

Groundwater is Arizona's only alternative source to the Colorado River Basin, water that was laid down probably 70 to 80 thousand years ago.


Far-Right Arizona is leasing farmland and the associated groundwater rights to a Saudi water company, Fondomonte, straining aquifers, and threatening future water supply in Phoenix.

Fondomonte grows alfalfa to feed its cows in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia has practically exhausted its own underground aquifers there. But in Arizona, Fondomonte can pump as much water as it wants at no cost.

Groundwater is unregulated in most rural areas of the state. Fondomonte pays only $25 per acre annually. The State Land Department says the market rate is $50 dollars per acre and it provides a 50% discount because it doesn’t pay for improvements. But the $25 per acre price is about one-sixth of the market price for unimproved farmland with flood irrigation today, according to Charlie Havranek, a Realtor at Southwest Land Associates.

Although there are no records for how much Fondomonte is pumping out of the aquifer, a State Land Department report estimates the Saudi company is swallowing as much as 18,000 acre-feet of water every year – enough water to supply 54,000 single-family homes.

Using the average rate at which groundwater on state trust land is auctioned – as the report suggests — the value of the water Fondomonte uses could be anywhere from $3 million to $3.9 million a year.


Would it surprise anyone to learn that far-right Arizona expects "drought assistance" from the Federal taxpayer because they can't use as much water as they prefer ?

How else can Arizona continue to sell hay to Saudi Arabia without our assistance ? Conservative much ? Any thought for the future of their cities and their own citizens ? LOL

A state of big Trump supporters - they know a fellow grifter when they see one.

We've run out of other people's Social Security taxes needed to subsidize our low income tax rates.

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