An Arizona copper miner tried to sell Saudi Arabia’s king “American desert farming expertise” in the 1940s. He succeeded. Now, we face the water-driven consequences.
had a thought about how this is same as pumping water out of arizona and directly to saudi arabia.
tl:dr: water rights in arizona are so cheap that sa royalty has bought up or pays farms to grow alphalpha (required for their beef? indistry, for daiy likely?); and any change to these water rights, which stretch back many years, will end in a a gridlock fight with no reolution.
2022-12-24 – added: so we are already (north america) sending watert to the middle east (cf; the saidua arabiabe agrigculture ventures and buying of almonds and alaphalpha, . we adoes cana da participate in the selling of our water indirectly like this? our wheat is sold on global market, so in’t that the same as sending out water to ther middle east?
swhould add this to my intry on the usa/sa water route.
but isn’t this the samrter way to do it, reather than trying to convert sa or the me to farmable land, grow where water is plentiful, move highly conventrated “water” in the form of alfalfa? almosnds, etc.
‘course, don’t live in a desert might be a good idea. but tell that to the 100ms of peoplle living in the deserts or the world.
