The law has crippled groundwater regulation in most of the state and large farming operations have been exploiting it for decades. This includes American and foreign-owned companies. Even if the state can stop foreign companies from abusing Arizona’s lax water laws, American mega-dairies and large-scale alfalfa farms will continue to pump the state’s aquifer water at alarming rates.

Technically older than I’d like to post, but this information hasn’t been posted before, and I was surprised to learn that, despite the lease cancellations that made the news, there’s still a lot more alfalfa megafarms we need to deal with.