Gov. Katie Hobbs’ administration on Monday announced two steps to stop a controversial Saudi Arabian company from using groundwater beneath state land in western Arizona to grow and export alfalfa.

Hobbs said in a statement that the Arizona State Land Department had canceled one of its leases to Fondomonte Arizona, and would not renew three others that are set to expire in February.

  • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People should note that indigenous groups had also been practicing agriculture along the rivers all through the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. Agriculture isn’t the problem overall, unsustainable crops like alfalfa are.

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      Maybe, but the Hohokam died out before the Columbian Exchange and part of it may have been related to a dry century.

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        The Hohokam are far from the only group that have lived in those deserts all along the Colorado and it’s tributaries