Description: H2OAZ: A Clear & Vital Resource | AZ’s last major water protections were passed 44 years ago, but 80% of AZ still has no protections for our groundwater.
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This means 1.3 million rural Arizonans live in areas with zero groundwater protections, where anyone from anywhere in the world can plunder our water supply as long as they have the deepest pockets to drill the deepest wells. And they are – mega farms owned by corporations in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, California and Minnesota are all using millions of gallons of Arizona water EACH DAY to grow crops for export.
This means small farm, city, and family wells are running dry as out-of-state and foreign companies drain Arizona’s deserts of water supplies that took thousands of years to accumulate.