For Star subscribers: A bill responding to the pumping of Arizona groundwater by a Saudi industrial farm bans foreign leasing of state lands. It does not deal with Arizona's lax groundwater laws.
Tim Steller You can take a lot of lessons from the scandal over a Saudi company pumping Arizona groundwater to grow alfalfa for export back to the Middle East.
People are also reading… The main problem the Fondomonte fiasco illustrates is that our groundwater laws remain too lax. It shows that anyone with enough money can come into Arizona and deplete its aquifers without any regulations or consequences. At a Feb. 16 meeting of the House Land, Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, Biasiucci said,"This bill is making sure that these countries in question should never own the state lands of Arizona."
Rep. Mariana Sandoval, a Democrat from Goodyear, responded,"I don’t know that the underlying issues, pumping groundwater, are in your bill." There is actually a legislator with a decent idea for doing something about that touchy issue — Biasiucci. He has proposed establishing a new type of entity, a"local groundwater stewardship area."
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