I live in Cochise county and all the blame should be placed in the garbage politicians that are in the area. They need to interview Gail Griffin and ask her why she still defends the agricultural companies. She represents the area and struck down a bill in Febraury that could have prevented a bigger mess. Unless people change their votes then this water issue will worsen.
As an Arizona resident, I ask where is the state government on this? Asleep at the switch? With aboveground water sources diminishing, groundwater aquifers being depleted, and endless new residential and commercial users appearing every month when is our legislature going to pass water management regulations to control and limit the use of this precious resource? Maybe they're waiting until it becomes an emergency...
The state government is the one causing the problem. They have sold the entire state off to the lowest bidder. Doug Roscoe Ducey from Ohio has sold state trust land off to build miles and miles of cracker box cardboard cookie cutter houses, and massive production facilities. Douche bag Ducey has opened the flood gates to the communist democrat parasite to come to Arizona and eat at it's host until dead and unsustainable.
@@oleviajackson4651 yep, drought since 2000, and Arizona allowed these farms to come in 10 years after that to export produce out of the country by corporations that already drained other countries aquifers lol we don’t have the brightest people running this state.
Thank you for doing a report on this critical issue. Please, please do follow up reports and seek out our county and state officials for response. We keep hitting brick walls and need help desperately.
yep, sadly Corporate Greed loves the Wild West Arizona no restrictions kinda place. since year 2010 Well digging says it all folks. MN owners rich at our expense
Minnesota, Saudi Arabia, UAE, it’s ridiculous. When I moved here everyone always said that the state had groundwater to make up for water losses if the Colorado dried up, but now they allow this type of stuff to happen?
Haha! I agree. Agriculture overall needs to change “Kiss the Ground” documentary on Netflix really sunk it in for me that we’re doing it all wrong! Could be paradise 🤯
Resource depletion was the probable downfall of more than one pre-columbian desert culture. This time around it will be very difficult to turn around - given the growth of Arizona's population and how many its politicians are in the pockets of big agriculture.
We live in Bowie, and in the last 5 months there are 2 more areas that have been scraped and 2-3 more wells for the California pecan company have been erected, we are a small community and our water is being depleted with every well they dig,and they continue to plant more pecans and pistachios. These companies come from other states dry up the water and leave the people who live and rely on our aquifer to keep our homes. There are a lot of old timers that have been here all there lives, and now our homes are being THREATENED, by these companies. So who's pockets are being lined to look the other way? Our Govenor and all state legislators need to ban these companies from this raping of our water. We need to live here, and without water no one will be able to keep our homes and livelihood.
I don't know how many pounds of corn a cow eats, but it takes 8 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of corn. There's approximately 1 billion cows on the planet. That's a lot of pounds of corn.
Alfalfa is extremely water intensive as well, and a lot of it isn’t even feeding cattle in Arizona, but being shipping to Saudi Arabia to feed livestock there after they drained their own aquifers.
You don’t eat the alfalfa being sent to Saudi Arabia, or the cotton being grown in AZ. These groundwater uses are far larger than a resort using recycled water for a resort.
@@Lily1975 we can have sustainable water if we wanted as well as golf courses, parks, trees, and water parks. Municipal use accounts for 20% of the states water every year. Agriculture accounts for 70%+ every year. We have tens of thousands of acres growing water intensive crops in this state that is being exported out of the country using ground water that took thousands of years to accumulate underground. That is far more wasteful and unsustainable that a water park using small amounts of reclaimed water. Hell Tempe Town lake, one of the biggest tourist spots and draws for business relocations to the state, contains 3k acre-feet and will be obviously many many many times larger than any water park being developed. Tempe Town Lake is a minuscule fraction of what agriculture is drilling in single rural counties, let alone the entire state combined.
This is the message you got from a video on increased agriculture water use in very rural Arizona? A state that uses less water now than it did 50 years ago despite millions more people living I the state.
We lost our family well in Cochise in the 80's. It was a somewhat more than 100 ft deep. Many others did too. Risk and cost of drilling a new one, possibly as deep as a thousand feet and still getting bad water caused many to have their water trucked in. I guess they haven't learned a damn thing with fifty years of trying. Looking at the news from the whole state though, you'll all be sucking sand not too long in the future.
But yet these folks all have big houses n barns n such. Think ahead and setup water cachment b4 your well goes dry. I can spit n hit the douglas prison, a well quot was 15k to start not guaranteed and they said it would b 6 months b4 they can come out to drill.
So this could have been prevented with some planning and regulation. Hooray for American free market capitalism. Just feel a bit sorry for Greg's little oasis, but creating a watered forest in a desert is also not sustainable in the log run.
But....but....but ughh we just moved here from California and spent millions of dollars on our junk cookie cutter house and need to fill our swimming pool.
Incorrect. This is rural AZ which is using ground water and where not many people live. AZ uses less water now than it did 50 years ago despite having millions more people living in the state. Hell, we have Saudi Arabian corporations who have purchased 10k+ acre of rural land for water intensive crops to be shipped back to their own country after they depleted their own aquifers.
@@baronvon4158 overuse from corporations not people. Municipal use in AZ accounts for 20% of water use. That’s less than all the water that AZ gets from the Colorado River alone. You are right the human cause climate change is making this drought worse.
"D not bruise the aquifers." A message from God years ago that humans should adhere to get your water from rivers from rain but do not get it from aquifers. Preserve the aquifers according to God's instructions. "Compost the desert." Is another one. Feel free to pass this on and quote it. Good advice to humans. 🙂
Maybe if you didn't let FLDS dig tunnels all over, you wouldn't be out of water. Flds Mormons have tunnels all over to help them with thier human trafficking and child sex trafficking ring. They use alot of water digging those tunnels. Benson Arizona cops let flds do whatever they want. Quarterhorse rv park was closed, they allowed them to use the quarterhorse rv park to human traffick people. The park was not licensed, and should have been condemned. There was a power line laying on the ground! The park was disgusting, and the water was contaminated. That's another thing flds dies. They go around Cochise County contaminated water of non Mormons. Do something about flds, you can find the water tamperers at the FLDS church in Benson Arizona. Benson police are obviously there for looks, to say they have a police department, because FLDS runs Benson
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I live in Cochise county and all the blame should be placed in the garbage politicians that are in the area. They need to interview Gail Griffin and ask her why she still defends the agricultural companies. She represents the area and struck down a bill in Febraury that could have prevented a bigger mess.
Unless people change their votes then this water issue will worsen.
As an Arizona resident, I ask where is the state government on this? Asleep at the switch? With aboveground water sources diminishing, groundwater aquifers being depleted, and endless new residential and commercial users appearing every month when is our legislature going to pass water management regulations to control and limit the use of this precious resource? Maybe they're waiting until it becomes an emergency...
The state government is the one causing the problem. They have sold the entire state off to the lowest bidder. Doug Roscoe Ducey from Ohio has sold state trust land off to build miles and miles of cracker box cardboard cookie cutter houses, and massive production facilities. Douche bag Ducey has opened the flood gates to the communist democrat parasite to come to Arizona and eat at it's host until dead and unsustainable.
They don’t care, because it means them saying no to money and power that they want.
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It is already an emergency.
Laws need to be changed regarding the corporation water usage
Isn't there a draught
@@oleviajackson4651 yep, drought since 2000, and Arizona allowed these farms to come in 10 years after that to export produce out of the country by corporations that already drained other countries aquifers lol we don’t have the brightest people running this state.
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Thank you for doing a report on this critical issue. Please, please do follow up reports and seek out our county and state officials for response. We keep hitting brick walls and need help desperately.
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yep, sadly Corporate Greed loves the Wild West Arizona no restrictions kinda place. since year 2010 Well digging says it all folks. MN owners rich at our expense
Minnesota, Saudi Arabia, UAE, it’s ridiculous. When I moved here everyone always said that the state had groundwater to make up for water losses if the Colorado dried up, but now they allow this type of stuff to happen?
Why isn't Bowie's agriculture ever mentioned? Texas Settlement south of Wilcox?
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A Dry, Hot Desert environment is Perfect for Agriculture
Haha! I agree. Agriculture overall needs to change “Kiss the Ground” documentary on Netflix really sunk it in for me that we’re doing it all wrong! Could be paradise 🤯
All it takes is water and you can grow anything in the desert.
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Resource depletion was the probable downfall of more than one pre-columbian desert culture. This time around it will be very difficult to turn around - given the growth of Arizona's population and how many its politicians are in the pockets of big agriculture.
Water is essential to life!
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Geez, maybe turning a desert into farmland was stupid!?
Ya mean like the LA Basin and southern California? No more lake mead = no more desert living, period.
Its time to move east or somewhere where it still rains regularly...
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Thank God for men like Greg who lead by example
It's like we live.....in a desert...😒
I won't be moving anywhere near there. First heard about this over 2 years ago.
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We live in Bowie, and in the last 5 months there are 2 more areas that have been scraped and 2-3 more wells for the California pecan company have been erected, we are a small community and our water is being depleted with every well they dig,and they continue to plant more pecans and pistachios. These companies come from other states dry up the water and leave the people who live and rely on our aquifer to keep our homes. There are a lot of old timers that have been here all there lives, and now our homes are being THREATENED, by these companies. So who's pockets are being lined to look the other way? Our Govenor and all state legislators need to ban these companies from this raping of our water. We need to live here, and without water no one will be able to keep our homes and livelihood.
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I don't know how many pounds of corn a cow eats, but it takes 8 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of corn. There's approximately 1 billion cows on the planet. That's a lot of pounds of corn.
I have heard 10 pound of corn for 1 pound of beef.
Alfalfa is extremely water intensive as well, and a lot of it isn’t even feeding cattle in Arizona, but being shipping to Saudi Arabia to feed livestock there after they drained their own aquifers.
More people mean more problems.
Maybe allowing foreign companies to come in and drill deeper wells and screw the community is a bad idea…
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They have to give up. Some California zip codes wellls will run out this summer. Unless you can flush toilets with mud
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Corporate Farms… How about THE NEW BEACH RESORT THEY ARE BUILDING IN GLENDALE….SMART, Arizona. WE NEED FOOD NOT A BEACH RESORT.
And the hay and alfalfa being grown by the Saudis to ship back to Saudi. Shouldn't even be allowed.
You don’t eat the alfalfa being sent to Saudi Arabia, or the cotton being grown in AZ. These groundwater uses are far larger than a resort using recycled water for a resort.
@@basedoz5745 Every Degree counts in Arizona, as well as every drop of water. (The reason we are in this situation is too many think like u do.
@@Lily1975 we can have sustainable water if we wanted as well as golf courses, parks, trees, and water parks. Municipal use accounts for 20% of the states water every year. Agriculture accounts for 70%+ every year. We have tens of thousands of acres growing water intensive crops in this state that is being exported out of the country using ground water that took thousands of years to accumulate underground. That is far more wasteful and unsustainable that a water park using small amounts of reclaimed water. Hell Tempe Town lake, one of the biggest tourist spots and draws for business relocations to the state, contains 3k acre-feet and will be obviously many many many times larger than any water park being developed. Tempe Town Lake is a minuscule fraction of what agriculture is drilling in single rural counties, let alone the entire state combined.
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They have a water infiltration problem as well no pun intended. They had twice as much rain last year. But it runs off fast and causes flooding.
How many of these corporations are foreign owned?
As many as your IQ... 2 or 3
Nice forest
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And so the water wars begin.
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Who'd think when an area with limited water resources becomes overpopulated we'd run out of water. Truly a big brain moment.
This is the message you got from a video on increased agriculture water use in very rural Arizona? A state that uses less water now than it did 50 years ago despite millions more people living I the state.
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Wait, so you are claiming that Cochise County is “overpopulated?” Now, THAT is truly a No-Brain Moment!
What a guy
We lost our family well in Cochise in the 80's. It was a somewhat more than 100 ft deep. Many others did too. Risk and cost of drilling a new one, possibly as deep as a thousand feet and still getting bad water caused many to have their water trucked in. I guess they haven't learned a damn thing with fifty years of trying. Looking at the news from the whole state though, you'll all be sucking sand not too long in the future.
Goes to show
It's wise if you can. Collect as much rain water as you can
But yet these folks all have big houses n barns n such. Think ahead and setup water cachment b4 your well goes dry. I can spit n hit the douglas prison, a well quot was 15k to start not guaranteed and they said it would b 6 months b4 they can come out to drill.
So this could have been prevented with some planning and regulation.
Hooray for American free market capitalism. Just feel a bit sorry for Greg's little oasis, but creating a watered forest in a desert is also not sustainable in the log run.
But....but....but ughh we just moved here from California and spent millions of dollars on our junk cookie cutter house and need to fill our swimming pool.
Stop it dont coast 40,000 dollars. You're just digging a hole. What a rip off.
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It's not the water its to many people in the world.
The problem is that there are too many people, not a lack of regulation
Incorrect. This is rural AZ which is using ground water and where not many people live. AZ uses less water now than it did 50 years ago despite having millions more people living in the state. Hell, we have Saudi Arabian corporations who have purchased 10k+ acre of rural land for water intensive crops to be shipped back to their own country after they depleted their own aquifers.
@@basedoz5745 The groundwater is receding from over use, and no, there are way too many people in Arizona, which is causing less rainfall
@@baronvon4158 overuse from corporations not people. Municipal use in AZ accounts for 20% of water use. That’s less than all the water that AZ gets from the Colorado River alone. You are right the human cause climate change is making this drought worse.
@@basedoz5745 Where do those people get food to eat? Certainly none of that "corporate" use of water is to feed people!
@@baronvon4158 do you eat livestock feed that is sent to Saudi Arabia? Maybe you eat cotton?
"D not bruise the aquifers." A message from God years ago that humans should adhere to get your water from rivers from rain but do not get it from aquifers. Preserve the aquifers according to God's instructions. "Compost the desert." Is another one. Feel free to pass this on and quote it. Good advice to humans. 🙂
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"Small government" in action.
Maybe if you didn't let FLDS dig tunnels all over, you wouldn't be out of water. Flds Mormons have tunnels all over to help them with thier human trafficking and child sex trafficking ring. They use alot of water digging those tunnels. Benson Arizona cops let flds do whatever they want. Quarterhorse rv park was closed, they allowed them to use the quarterhorse rv park to human traffick people. The park was not licensed, and should have been condemned. There was a power line laying on the ground! The park was disgusting, and the water was contaminated. That's another thing flds dies. They go around Cochise County contaminated water of non Mormons. Do something about flds, you can find the water tamperers at the FLDS church in Benson Arizona. Benson police are obviously there for looks, to say they have a police department, because FLDS runs Benson
LMFAO‼😂🤣😂
What a guy