How Saudi Arabia’s international search for water led them to Arizona
Getty Images Irrigation canals and siphon pipes that supply water to an alfalfa field in Arizona. There has long been simmering outrage over Saudi dairy companies using Arizona’s groundwater to grow alfalfa here and send it back to the Middle East. Anger is now boiling over as the state’s water crisis deepens, with residents, local […]
Here’s how Arizona built Saudi Arabia’s farming empire
Arizona copper miners tried to sell “American desert farming expertise” to the King of Saudi Arabia in the 1940s. he succeeded. We are now facing the effects of water. La Paz, Arizona — The desert, filled with dust, rocks and arid vegetation, is now teeming with rows of bright green crops and roaming livestock powered […]
