AZ Attorney General may sue water hungry foreign farms

Craig Smith is KGUN 9's Southeast side reporter. Send your story ideas to Craig at [email protected].

TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona’s Attorney General says she’s looking into ways to keep foreign companies from using far too much of Arizona’s groundwater to grow crops to feed cows in the Middle East.

Cows in the Middle East can fatten up on alfalfa from fields in Arizona west and northwest of Phoenix but that takes colossal amounts of groundwater from deep under our deserts. He does not blame the Saudis, or the companies from the United Arab Emirates. He says there are large farms owned by U.S. companies dipping deep into Arizona’s water too. He says they’re all legal under Arizona law, but that law is weak.

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