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Arizona actually has a lot of water because of several successful and ambitious irrigation projects in the last century. So much so, that it has become an agri
by buzzert 2y ago
Arizona actually has a lot of water because of several successful and ambitious irrigation projects in the last century.
So much so, that it has become an agricultural region for growing notoriously water intensive crops like alfalfa and pistachios.
- nhubbard 2y agoI mean, yeah, they have become an agricultural region... but it's not good for the people who live in Arizona right now. [0] [0]: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/arizona-water-foreign-owned-farms-climate/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/arizona-water-foreign-owne...
- rurp 2y agoIt's notoriously unsustainable. Those water intensive crops would be wildly infeasible if the farmers had to pay anything close to a market price for the obscene amounts of limited water they consume.