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Offline Elderberry

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American Military News by Justin Cooper 11/7/2022

Groundwater in the southwest is being used to grow feed for livestock on the other side of the world, even as U.S. residents in the region struggle through a historic drought.

In one Arizona town, residential wells are running dry as a huge farm owned by a Saudi company pumps water to its alfalfa crops. But those crops will only be shipped to feed cows in the Middle East, where water is also growing scarce, CNN reported.

Water-intensive crops like alfalfa and hay have already been banned in Saudi Arabia as the country runs dry. But sprawling dairy farms are a point of national pride in the Middle East, so those countries are getting their water overseas, according to CNN.

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Re: Foreign companies taking US water from drought-stricken Southwest
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2022, 02:08:48 am »
Very interesting phenomena.

The democratic SOS candidate is pushing the idea of cancelling the contracts.