Saudi company draws unlimited Arizona ground water for crop illegal to grow in Saudi Arabia

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  • @Jeanne90275
    @Jeanne90275 ปีที่แล้ว +1367

    Colorado River water has been a contentious issue for decades. The idea that Arizona has allowed this precious commodity to be squandered on Saudi leased land (@ $25an acre!) is criminal or criminally stupid. The southwest is a desert and water conservation is essential.

    • @KA-uv8gq
      @KA-uv8gq ปีที่แล้ว +41

      The problem is that we view and treat water as s commodity to begin with.

    • @HiThisIsMine
      @HiThisIsMine ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@KA-uv8gq - is that really “the problem”?? Because if we actually viewed water as a commodity in the first place… we wouldn’t be giving it away for free to another country.
      The valuable resource to the Arizona officials who agreed to this deal, was whatever kickbacks they were getting from the Saudi’s.
      THE problem… is that we often DON’T look at water as a commodity, and many government officials look at their own bottom line rather than that of the citizens.
      Water is absolutely a commodity.

    • @snigs5T5
      @snigs5T5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      That's Republican'ts for ya!

    • @stick9758
      @stick9758 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I just moved from Az back to the U.P. Of Michigan. I spent 5 years in Phoenix area. I was born in the west and moved to the water states when I was 10. It was a big change but people here don’t waist water like they do there! I was BLOWN away by how they flood there blocks weekly!! Crazy!! The trees and plants brought in absurdity!! I still can’t understand it even after moving back

    • @stick9758
      @stick9758 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And my water bill is almost 2x what it was in Gilbert!!!!! Same family, same amount of water!! Twice the cost but more available!!!

  • @sharonkinsella7435
    @sharonkinsella7435 ปีที่แล้ว +714

    As an Arizonan, thank you for shining a light on this outrageous issue!! I appreciate that the attorney general of Arizona has been trying to do something about it.

    • @arizonaadventures3421
      @arizonaadventures3421 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Alfalfa is one of the easiest crops to grow in the desert. If you have land rights and have a well you have access to that water. BLM exists and you can pay to have rights on that land. It sounds bad but sounds legal too. Im on a well and one of the benefits is i don't have to pay the government for water. This situation sucks but sounds above board to me. We have a lot of alfalfa farms up north in Arizona too. They are all small family owned farms. This sounds more like a story to invite fear in people. Most states have water rights laws that basically state if you dont use the water you lose it, forcing farmers to flood their lands even when they are not growing crops. This is a government rights and legal issue not a saudi theft corruption issue.

    • @nekopop8159
      @nekopop8159 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@arizonaadventures3421 That’s right. Therefore we need to address the Saudis stealing our water and farmland.
      We let them in because they seemed good, but then they are not. It’s their problem.

    • @MC_1993
      @MC_1993 ปีที่แล้ว

      This will destroy your state.

    • @arizonaadventures3421
      @arizonaadventures3421 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@nekopop8159 The thing is if we are addressing the Saudis we must also address every other farmer or land owner/renter that has well water rights. International business exists. Americans own business in other countries as well. I don't think it would be safe to attack an individual group. I believe its the foundation of agro laws that needs to be looked at. Its the foundation that creates fairness. Its what the United States used to be about.

    • @topherkrump9317
      @topherkrump9317 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Saudi should have a right to use all the Arizona water it wants.

  • @bjoe631
    @bjoe631 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    Thank you for bring this problem to the public.

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  • @shanel7707
    @shanel7707 ปีที่แล้ว +489

    Look at a world map, the fact that it made sense for a company to grow it in AZ and ship it all the way to Saudia Arabia vs all the other options in Afria/Asia/Europe means there's a major issue how AZ is regulating and charging for its water use. It has nothing to do with who owns the company.

    • @Group_Anonymous
      @Group_Anonymous ปีที่แล้ว

      Canada bars foreigners from buying real estate…..and taxes those who already own property. WE DONT 🇺🇸💰

    • @kensmechanicalaffair
      @kensmechanicalaffair ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Agreed.

    • @hus390
      @hus390 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Bingo!! Foreign owned is not a problem per say, if they are investigating it in a mutually beneficial way. In this case, they actually leased the land, and didn't bought it. The use is the problem. Here the harm to AZ far exceeds any benefits (badly needed fresh water are taken for fractions of a cent, and used to grow a crop that will be shipped overseas).

    • @canyonmonkey2537
      @canyonmonkey2537 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It's a strategic plan to limit resources 8n an already arid southwest. You grow alfalfa 8n Kansas not Arizona. The only caviat to Arizona is the mild winters in say yuma....where most of the world winter supply of lettuce is grown.
      If Saudi Arabia wants Arizona or Kansas alfalfa, you buy it... from an American farmer

    • @Optim40
      @Optim40 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's true.

  • @CarlosRodriguez-hb3vq
    @CarlosRodriguez-hb3vq ปีที่แล้ว +573

    Similar thing happens with American owned corporate farms. They drill deep, expensive wells and pump 24/7. Poor folks see their wells dry up.

    • @LegalFiction.
      @LegalFiction. ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It is sad but at least that food stays here

    • @hyphen2612
      @hyphen2612 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Naw, because the products are consumed mostly by Americans so that makes it okay 😊

    • @147gcg
      @147gcg ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@LegalFiction. what food?

    • @ilikecinema1234
      @ilikecinema1234 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ​@@147gcgThey're referring to the poison that's in your grocery stores

    • @147gcg
      @147gcg ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@ilikecinema1234 yes I do understand that but on this video they said they are growing alfalfa and shipping it back to their country to feed their cows while depleting our groundwater that we desperately need

  • @haypaul61
    @haypaul61 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you Saudi Arabia... for investing in the welfare of Arizona farmers...🎉

  • @tragicrhythm
    @tragicrhythm ปีที่แล้ว +451

    Those state officials should be investigated especially their finances. If there was no advantage to be made in this lease by the state, then something else was going on.

    • @mdj-ie7rj
      @mdj-ie7rj ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Exactly! While it’s maddening that Saudi Arabia (and others) are draining the aquifer; it is being done legally due to insane az laws which should have come to a halt long ago! The public has a right to know who is benefitting. The state land department leased and sold land to them-it isnt impossible to obtain the signatures from govt archives and pinpoint who was and is, responsible. Investigate!

    • @travisyarbrough4033
      @travisyarbrough4033 ปีที่แล้ว

      Saudi's do everything with money .......

    • @iketheranter9126
      @iketheranter9126 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🎯👍

    • @hairjezus
      @hairjezus ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Facts

    • @platinumpineapple9943
      @platinumpineapple9943 ปีที่แล้ว

      100% being paid millions by corrupt saudi mo ey

  • @SaynotocommilaH
    @SaynotocommilaH ปีที่แล้ว +1067

    It's about time this is getting headlines. No other foreign country should be able to use our land and our water for their crop. Especially if Arizona is in a "drought". We have had record rain and snow this year and all the reservoirs are full but the wells, groundwater are empty. Saudi isn't the only one either. All of it needs to stop.

    • @3xsxs953
      @3xsxs953 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      You realize America has been doing the same in other countries for decades, right? Lmao. Look up banana republics.

    • @ezraleslie1361
      @ezraleslie1361 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@3xsxs953 no. amrrikka. fug yah.

    • @Teeveepicksures
      @Teeveepicksures ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Has nothing to do with other countries. Arizona State Legislature won't do anything because they want their payoffs.

    • @saundracoveal2752
      @saundracoveal2752 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Exactly! And, if they are allowed to this, they should be paying through the roof!

    • @canyonmonkey2537
      @canyonmonkey2537 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      China owns alot of land here too.

  • @dboogeman2002
    @dboogeman2002 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Finally thanks for bringing this to the masses but many of us have known this for awhile.

  • @gigif8566
    @gigif8566 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    Corruption at it's worst. Follow the money.

    • @rainmaker3700
      @rainmaker3700 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, because we have the most corrupt government in the world. They will sell out every American.

    • @ghostmanscores1666
      @ghostmanscores1666 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Democrats

    • @dk3941
      @dk3941 ปีที่แล้ว

      Leads to gop. The gop have close ties with Saudis. Look at donald's children.

    • @wolfman3295
      @wolfman3295 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ghostmanscores1666 Loser! democrats are trying to fight this!

    • @powermatt9001
      @powermatt9001 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@ghostmanscores1666 or... just follow the money.

  • @jeffery1855
    @jeffery1855 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    How does Arizona not realize the precarious situation they’re in in terms of water? They’re literally developing themselves into becoming another death valley or a dust bowl part 2

    • @jacksevert3099
      @jacksevert3099 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Arizona was run by Republican Doug Ducey when this happened. Now that a Democrat is Governor this is finally becoming news.. let that sink in.

    • @wheeltolive1117
      @wheeltolive1117 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@jacksevert3099 exactly. Katie Hobbs had to stop the contract.

    • @bjonh3099
      @bjonh3099 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yep. The housing market is going to be great in az once the water runs out.

    • @gabrielbustamante5801
      @gabrielbustamante5801 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jacksevert3099 there is always one to bark when not needed lol

    • @gabrielbustamante5801
      @gabrielbustamante5801 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because these conversations could lead to misunderstandings and or political fights

  • @solart78
    @solart78 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Someone needs to be held accountable for allowing this. Outrageous

  • @colleeporter2657
    @colleeporter2657 ปีที่แล้ว +540

    This is outrageous
    Why are we selling our farm land to foreign countries ?

    • @Rick-tb4so
      @Rick-tb4so ปีที่แล้ว +150

      Because Politicians are making money..

    • @NGwarp5
      @NGwarp5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's not that this happens in USA only. Rich US cronies are also buying land and properties OUTSIDE of their own land that is US. Welcome to neo-liberal world where rich kids get to buy land and properties where they want. Greed rules this planet.

    • @eliharp3576
      @eliharp3576 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Technically, the country is up for grabs one acre at a time. Sad to say but it can literally be bought out from under us.

    • @someutubchannel69
      @someutubchannel69 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      For $$$$$$

    • @eliharp3576
      @eliharp3576 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@someutubchannel69 The land is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.🤔

  • @guru47pi
    @guru47pi ปีที่แล้ว +597

    The problem isn't that it's foreign owned, the problem is that the water isn't being regulated appropriately. Arizona needs to regulate its groundwater usage

    • @mtk635
      @mtk635 ปีที่แล้ว

      Foreigner owned farmland is a huge problem tf is wrong with you

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      No the problem is definitely that it’s foreign owned. We’re using OUR resources to grow products for another country? And do Americans who aren’t fatcat CEOs benefit from this??

    • @albertrehlander1542
      @albertrehlander1542 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      If it's foreign, and on our soil it's bad.

    • @USAKing1776NASCAR
      @USAKing1776NASCAR ปีที่แล้ว +29

      The problem is both the land being foreign owned and there’s no regulation for groundwater use.

    • @Group_Anonymous
      @Group_Anonymous ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Let it burn🔥

  • @jbeyond7402
    @jbeyond7402 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    While they gouge us with oil prices we give them our water for 25/acre, might as well be free. That scale is not balanced.

  • @swishmaster1
    @swishmaster1 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    During the signing of the lease, someone's pocket was stuffed with cash. Its disgusting to know a foreign company is doing this but we also do this to each other. I know of a area here in my state that farmers will directional drill across the border to steal water from another state. In my own backyard a few farmers are building ponds to catch run off and feed irrigation units out of these ponds, which is somewhat ok but there is some talk that 2 of these farmers have wells that also feed these ponds... That is our ground water for rural water districts which is already hurting from hog confinements that have sprung up over the last 20+ years... Which our tax dollar help build each and everyone of those confinements...

    • @vivekr4690
      @vivekr4690 ปีที่แล้ว

      But you mean to say it is perfectly alright when Uncle Sam does it? Uncle Sam extracts oil from hundreds of countries and sell coke there.

    • @Jeromeeb
      @Jeromeeb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@vivekr4690so which oil company is owned by uncle sam again?

    • @vivekr4690
      @vivekr4690 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Jeromeeb enron has done lots of great work by spilling oil !

    • @Jeromeeb
      @Jeromeeb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vivekr4690 thats a cool story, but uncle sam never owned enron

    • @vivekr4690
      @vivekr4690 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Jeromeeb Companies which are based in America do not give a damn about environment or rules elsewhere. They pay fines only in US.

  • @asmrdesigned
    @asmrdesigned ปีที่แล้ว +183

    Arizona has been one of the most abused states in the country. Overrun with abusive and negligent developers.

    • @1stamendmentmedia464
      @1stamendmentmedia464 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Well blame this one on (former) Doug Duce this was his doing. All done with his blessing.

    • @TheeDrSack
      @TheeDrSack ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Motorola way back when destroyed billions of gallons of deep aquifer water, still has issues to this day

    • @Teeveepicksures
      @Teeveepicksures ปีที่แล้ว

      AZ State Legislature is corrupt by design.

    • @travisyarbrough4033
      @travisyarbrough4033 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Ya Get What Ya Vote For .......

    • @xmateinc
      @xmateinc ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea when you have republicans running things, the only thing they care about is money.

  • @Phla58
    @Phla58 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This is outrageous! But honestly this is actually a case of don't hate the player hate the game - it really means that state politicians need to make some changes that target this kind of international farming tactic. Good reporting for shedding light on this important issue as the whole region runs low on water.

  • @JPabloRL
    @JPabloRL ปีที่แล้ว +142

    I really hope this story gets more national attention. This isn’t a new and it’s been going on for quite some time. The Southwest really needs to sit down and have a serious adult bipartisan discussion about their water resources.

    • @jacksevert3099
      @jacksevert3099 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Arizona was run by Republican Doug Ducey when this happened. Now that a Democrat is Governor this is finally becoming news.. let that sink in.

    • @bruh-so8vp
      @bruh-so8vp ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jacksevert3099 yet the republican economic policies are why people are fleeing from blue states to states like arizona. Any person can be corrupt but republican policies are just better.

    • @moctezuma1341
      @moctezuma1341 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your American corporations do the same thing in other countries

    • @JPabloRL
      @JPabloRL ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jacksevert3099 It “sank” in years ago (wanted to point out the water pun).

    • @JPabloRL
      @JPabloRL ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@moctezuma1341 I did some looking. The Swiss with Nestle is the worst.

  • @TheMrSmirky
    @TheMrSmirky ปีที่แล้ว +41

    im glad you are covering this. ive been concerned about this for the last few months

    • @noyopacific
      @noyopacific ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I appreciate the issues of water conservation however the implication of the situation at the beginning of the story was false. The rancher with a dry well surrounded by vast alfalfa fields was presented as if this use of water to grow alfalfa were causing his well to go dry. This is a blatant lie. The alfalfa fields are irrigated from Colorado River water diversions. If anything this use would help maintain the ground water level rather than cause it to drop. I very much support efforts to manage water resources. This type of phony story creates a false impression which does not help the effort to manage water better. It is a classic false flag diversion which is presented to send the opposition off to fight a meaningless battle. 🤬

    • @TheMrSmirky
      @TheMrSmirky ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noyopacific good to know. While this is true, them growing alfalfa on the land would help the ground water table. If they aren’t pulling from ground water and are only diverting water. My concern was more that a foreign government is using Arizona water resources to grow food for their country in a desert. Specially since they won’t grow it in their desert cause alfalfa takes to much water. Considering that Arizona has been in a drought multiple years. It seems dumb to me to be letting other people use the water we will soon be needing. This seems to just be another instance of the US being hollowed out just to make a quick dollar.

    • @noyopacific
      @noyopacific ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheMrSmirky I appreciate your concerns about foreign ownership of land and the use of water. I expect that the water rights are held by whoever owns the land. Adding restrictions to foreign ownership of land would probably involve some major changes in the law. It might also require that the government seize the water rights that go with the land and pay the owners for the loss of access to the water. Any changes of this sort are likely to involve some complex issues and might take a lot of money.

    • @TheMrSmirky
      @TheMrSmirky ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@noyopacific I appreciate you nice responses. You are a polite person to talk to. Keep being great 😁

    • @jacksevert3099
      @jacksevert3099 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arizona was run by Republican Doug Ducey when this happened. Now that a Democrat is Governor this is finally becoming news.. let that sink in.

  • @1stcavw247
    @1stcavw247 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Proud of AZ😊

  • @nicolassaarni88
    @nicolassaarni88 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    What a terrible situation. This needs to be stopped immediately

  • @containedhurricane
    @containedhurricane ปีที่แล้ว +67

    The US companies also extracted other countries' natural resources legally

    • @thesaudiman2108
      @thesaudiman2108 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      People are dumb it’s called a good business deal 😂

    • @ThatGuy-zh3vu
      @ThatGuy-zh3vu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This isn't a US thing this is an Arizona thing

    • @khadijahjokolo144
      @khadijahjokolo144 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You mean illegally? I was waiting for this comment. The irony! 😂😂

    • @thesaudiman2108
      @thesaudiman2108 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ThatGuy-zh3vu Damn Why you hating on Saudi let a brother have a come up on the expense of America We Up Now 🤣You have Syrian oil common man

    • @Defied_-vw2jz
      @Defied_-vw2jz ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thesaudiman2108 alternate energy other then combustional gas, but also solar charge

  • @thatonekid71
    @thatonekid71 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    TAKE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS

  • @jessedevilbiss8436
    @jessedevilbiss8436 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Utah does this also. Have been for a long time. The avocado farms and almond farms in California are also wildly destructive to the water table. It's been going on for decades.

    • @jacksevert3099
      @jacksevert3099 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's ok if it's Americans doing it on American land. Saying otherwise is Big Government Communism

    • @KnowOneNoWhere-86
      @KnowOneNoWhere-86 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      California's farm lands are sinking due to empty aquifers. The studies been goin since the 80s I believe

    • @THall-vi8cp
      @THall-vi8cp ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I've been bitching about our orchards in CA for a while. That land could be used to grow crops that yield all year. Instead we grow trees that take water all year but produce one crop annually.

    • @sean2015
      @sean2015 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What this country needs is water pipelines. If we have oil pipelines we can build water pipelines. Don’t tell me it’s because there’s no profit to be made. Water is life.

    • @pktdbgnzwl
      @pktdbgnzwl ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The water used for the USA is a good use of water.
      Exporting water/alfalfa is not.

  • @pmclaughlin4111
    @pmclaughlin4111 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Its less about which corporate entity owns the land. It is about water policy period. Explain how a massive American company pumping out all the water would make things better.

    • @Group_Anonymous
      @Group_Anonymous ปีที่แล้ว

      Canada bars foreigners from buying real estate…..and taxes those who already own property. WE DONT 🇺🇸💰

    • @JohnEboyee
      @JohnEboyee ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You put restrictions on who can lease Arizona's state land trust. It certainly shouldn't be big Corp.

    • @Ap_twsh
      @Ap_twsh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i dont need saudi arabian policy here in the US, WTf they influence governments, how do you think they have been pumping water.

    • @Mudmuffin
      @Mudmuffin ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ap_twsh have fun with 8 dollar gas then. Watch your gases prices next your I bet youll convert to Islam 😂😂😂

    • @pmclaughlin4111
      @pmclaughlin4111 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Ap-gk7kr Are you saying you really don't care about the water problem? You only care about race.
      You know what people who think race is the big problem are, dont you..
      My opinion, the problem is eater usage and depletion not race.

  • @kimm6589
    @kimm6589 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm glad this is finally making mainstream news. It's insane that foreign countries can essentially ship out our ground water, from deserts ffs.

  • @scotthushbeck4129
    @scotthushbeck4129 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This farm has been growing alfalfa for years before FondoMonte bought it. The alfalfa was then sold to Saudi dairies by the previous owners. Only difference is who owns it. Same thing happens in Palo Verde Valley, Imperial Valley, etc. If an American owned company owned it the alfalfa would still be sold to Saudi dairies. It’s political grandstanding. I bet everyone else in that area and that get water from the Central Arizona Project have subsidized water or same price per acre foot.

    • @jacksevert3099
      @jacksevert3099 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup. And people get mad at Bill Gates and the CCP doing the same. Telling them no would be COMMUNISM

    • @dom1abc1mbc
      @dom1abc1mbc ปีที่แล้ว

      the reason almarai (the parent company) invested in fondomonte, and the US in general is because although its more expensive than other countries it is considered a safe politically, environmentally, and socially, tarnishing that image would cascade a ripple effect of divestment out of the US from many countries but especially saudi arabia.

  • @mauricelaurin5923
    @mauricelaurin5923 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Similar, in California where we have the most bottled water companies in the nation. Properties were bought by large corporations IE nestle with grandfather water rights that allow limitless water. We also have the largest rice fields in the nation because of this

    • @garywhittaker6575
      @garywhittaker6575 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Whatever you decide, don't buy Fiji water. It comes out of a PVC pipe in the middle of the San Joaquin valley by the (not so) wonderful company.

    • @dclaet1135
      @dclaet1135 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Let's not forget the almond growers in California who are essentially exporting our water to China and other countries.

    • @jacksevert3099
      @jacksevert3099 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@dclaet1135 those are American Capitalists tho. Are you a Communist by chance?

    • @mikef2811
      @mikef2811 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There are landowners who grow food for livestock in the middle of the desert. And worst of all, they ship those foods to foreign countries to feed someone else's cows.

    • @Rockstar-jd8ot
      @Rockstar-jd8ot ปีที่แล้ว

      Nestle is owned by Israel. Israel uses our corporation and they use our soldiers to fight their wars. It’s normal

  • @guitarlessonswith4480
    @guitarlessonswith4480 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ironic that Arizon of all places, is one of the poorest water managers in the Western U.S.

  • @Cjs484
    @Cjs484 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Whats the difference between this deal and the michigan deal with nestle water?

    • @alexm566
      @alexm566 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The product is going overseas.

    • @hadtosaythis
      @hadtosaythis ปีที่แล้ว +9

      nothing. the land was never yours or mine to begin with. but apparently it makes a difference whether some greedy arabs own all of america or some greedy americans. neither of them are looking out for you and me.

    • @anwarnasser3039
      @anwarnasser3039 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alexm566 there’s nestle water overseas

    • @theoeguia3302
      @theoeguia3302 ปีที่แล้ว

      American takes natural resources from other countries too.
      No on cares

  • @jasoncarlow4516
    @jasoncarlow4516 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I really thought that the grass was going to feed American cows and was just foreign owned and it’s actually all being exported to Saudi is just shocking 🤯

    • @Group_Anonymous
      @Group_Anonymous ปีที่แล้ว

      Canada bars foreigners from buying real estate…. and taxes those who already own property. WE DONT 🇺🇸💰

    • @drmustjab
      @drmustjab ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Same, as USA build Military Base in Middle East 😂

    • @TORNTOA
      @TORNTOA ปีที่แล้ว

      Saudi pumping all that oil for Americans to drive to buy a cheeseburger. Shocking!

    • @TORNTOA
      @TORNTOA ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We live in a global society where commodities and constantly traded. It’s just the just the way it is.

    • @TORNTOA
      @TORNTOA ปีที่แล้ว

      Fun fact, most pork that you consume is owned by Chinese companies that bought out us pig farms.

  • @therewill1584
    @therewill1584 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm just smiling throughout the video and while reading the comments, thank you MBS

  • @aikotoba99
    @aikotoba99 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This isn't Saudi Arabia's fault at all. It's the fault of the people who signed the deal. I'm no fan of MBS but to blame another country for our own internal failure seems to be the underlying theme here. Just change it already and cancel the deal instead of trying to point the finger.

    • @jeffreyhusack2400
      @jeffreyhusack2400 ปีที่แล้ว

      Our own people selling us out

    • @jl333_
      @jl333_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Exactly. Unfortunately, money makes the world go round and due to Arizona’s own incompetence, SA saw the opportunity and pounced.

    • @jakelong6860
      @jakelong6860 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out Texas they bought oil refineries 4 years ago.

    • @-Stop-it
      @-Stop-it ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nobody is faulting the Saudis. The fault lies with the Arizona state government.

    • @bondrewdthelordofdawn3744
      @bondrewdthelordofdawn3744 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@-Stop-it the other comments seem disagree with you

  • @MMPCTV
    @MMPCTV ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I've read about this a number of times and it's comical that the "America First" party was turning off water to cities in Arizona while allowing a foreign government to use unlimited water to grow crops for horses!

  • @nate5353
    @nate5353 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THESE are the issues that need to the focus of representatives and politicians. Not the political theater that so many of them worry about.

  • @rachelgates509
    @rachelgates509 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    They didn’t say how long the leases were for though! I wanna know THAT!

    • @sullythepankake9663
      @sullythepankake9663 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Did you not read the paper? Its valid until 2031

  • @ceja03
    @ceja03 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    It’s the same thing that happens in Mexico, there’s many company’s in Mexico that extract Mexico’s resources and have them shipped back to the states! Mexico should put a stop to that as well because those resources never come back again!

    • @Jeanne90275
      @Jeanne90275 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Uh, are you referring to foodstuffs shipped to and sold in the US for profit or just the deadly illegal drugs and illegal aliens.

    • @TORNTOA
      @TORNTOA ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Excellent example GCL! I swear some American truly believe the world revolves around America.😂

    • @sociolocomtsac
      @sociolocomtsac ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As an American, I agree. Mexico should stop growing so many water-intensive crops (e.g avocados), whether it's American companies or Mexican farmers.

    • @dskains
      @dskains ปีที่แล้ว +1

      stealing really? paying royalities for minerals and paying farmers for produce isnt stealing.

    • @uncoveredtruth2088
      @uncoveredtruth2088 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sociolocomtsac It’s impossible to stop, the US government is putting the gun on Mexico’s head and forcefully stealing all the water. Just like how we are taking Iraq and Syria’s oil.

  • @juanrodriguez6707
    @juanrodriguez6707 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is good reporting! Thanks for heads up on this state issue

  • @romemedina4712
    @romemedina4712 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    With how my uncle is having issues on his farms it's something I'm very happy to hear actions can be taken.

  • @smokingjoe9864
    @smokingjoe9864 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    We used to have alfalfa in Southern Minnesota. Everything is corn now.
    We have to go back growing produce in the Midwest. We have 10 thousand lakes. Plus ground water. And the Great Lakes.
    Right now, it is an ocean of corn fields. Stretching a thousand square miles.
    Those corn fields is our wheat fields of the dust bowl.
    I remember as a boy in the mid 70s smelling the alfalfa plant in Southern Minnesota.

    • @serpentrae
      @serpentrae ปีที่แล้ว +1

      gmo corn

    • @serpentrae
      @serpentrae ปีที่แล้ว

      and only because the government subsidizes the corn

    • @skankhunt3624
      @skankhunt3624 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@serpentrae why so fearful of GMOs?

    • @serpentrae
      @serpentrae ปีที่แล้ว

      @@skankhunt3624 gmo corn is registered as a pesticide with the EPA
      GMO Bt corn was registered for use as a pesticide with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1961. Bt corn came on the market in 1996. There is Bt sweet corn (eaten directly by people) and Bt field corn (used in fuel, animal feed, other products and processed foods).
      the way the gmo corn kills the caterpillar a part of the plant that contains the Bt protein (not all parts of the plant necessarily contain the protein in equal concentrations) must be ingested. Within minutes, the protein binds to the gut wall and the insect stops feeding. Within hours, the gut wall breaks down and normal gut bacteria invade the body cavity. The insect dies of septicaemia as bacteria multiply in the blood. Even among Lepidoptera larvae, species differ in sensitivity to the Bt protein. so what is it doing to your gut, it can't be good

    • @ReflectedMiles
      @ReflectedMiles ปีที่แล้ว

      135,000 acres of alfalfa and mixed alfalfa just in new seedings in MN in 2022. Other types of hay production came in at 1.22 million tons for the year. We grow according to market demand, including government-incentivized demand, not philosophies and demands on the Internet--especially in the social-media space being one of the greatest lying machines ever invented because the public doesn't know or care what a credible source is.

  • @Nik-zf4xl
    @Nik-zf4xl ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The same had done by Coco cola company in poor developing countries...they depleted ground waters of thise nations....

  • @coleengoodell7523
    @coleengoodell7523 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Those open water canals look to me like evaporation canals. This is especially true in Arizona where your sweat evaporates off your body on hot days. You can get dehydrated quickly there. Heck, I could hang a load of wet cloths on the line and they'd be dry by the time the next load was finished washing. When I lived there my water bills were also costly. So seeing unlimited water being given to a foreign country is infuriating. Someone got paid off to grant this lease. Corruption at its finest.

    • @vulcan2882
      @vulcan2882 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      .. I was out in Phoenix 2 years ago visting a cousin, I did a load of laundry and hung it out on her clothes line. By the time I hung up the last thing the first thing I hung up was already dry, that was in July. ( oh for the record I washed a few pairs of jeans )

  • @vansiegfried
    @vansiegfried ปีที่แล้ว +120

    I'm so happy to see this story finally being brought to the main stream. Foreign own lands growing alpha to feed their Cattle!

    • @user-vy5uy9fo8p
      @user-vy5uy9fo8p ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Dont be naive. This is just geopolitics. Saudi has stopped towing the line of Uncle Sam and suddenly the US starts thinking about the environment. So, unless someone crosses the state department, they can still do whatever they want.

    • @vivekr4690
      @vivekr4690 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are so naive. Uncle Sam has it's fingers in so many cookie jars! US companies extract so much water from nearly 200 countries and sell them Coco cola and pepsi. Not to mention trillions of dollars worth of bombs dropped on foreign countries! Please do not tell me dropping bombs worth trillions are doing good for the environment!

    • @veramae4098
      @veramae4098 ปีที่แล้ว

      They just heard of this???

    • @sedg03
      @sedg03 ปีที่แล้ว

      Horses babe.. feeding sheiks's horses...

    • @NutjobChuck
      @NutjobChuck ปีที่แล้ว

      @ . You aren’t as smart as you think you are. There is a difference between correlation and causation. And water conservation has been a gradually growing topic here in Arizona as a result of droughts, river levels dropping, and the potential depletion of aquifers. For the past several years they have begun to bring experts into schools to teach kids about water conservation in order to prevent a disastrous overuse of resources.

  • @prooveditt4839
    @prooveditt4839 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why wouldn't any of the elected leaders ensure that this vital resource is protected?
    If they didn't receive kickbacks for allowing this then they are fools

  • @ScottArmas107
    @ScottArmas107 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I hauled teff seed off that ranch, it’s also on the California side by Blythe. They were talking about this last year already. Pretty ridiculous when American ranchers are going broke.

    • @blank1778
      @blank1778 ปีที่แล้ว

      They don’t care about Americans only money. This government is a joke

  • @curiouscat3384
    @curiouscat3384 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Outrageous! That lease for $25 per acre? Who was the legislator/administrator who got the bribe? This should actually be a national issue - so glad it appeared here. Not sure where to start to find out if sweetheart deals like this exist in my state NC but I'm going to investigate!

    • @dom1abc1mbc
      @dom1abc1mbc ปีที่แล้ว

      25 dollars per acre is actually expensive for a lease, you could outright buy land with that price

    • @curiouscat3384
      @curiouscat3384 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dom1abc1mbc well that's interesting! In North Carolina, agricultural land goes for $12,000 and up per acre. But of course we don't have the wide open dry spaces like Arizona. Very little land left here between cities and sub-rural subdivisions.

    • @lissaglasgow5492
      @lissaglasgow5492 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree

    • @j.a.3138
      @j.a.3138 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dom1abc1mbc Maybe back then. $25 per acre is dirt cheap in today's world.

  • @chyl0764
    @chyl0764 ปีที่แล้ว

    Whether the alfalfa is being raised for America’s cattle or Saudi Arabia’s, the whole industry is contributing greatly to the damage of our ecosystems. The amount of water required to raise one head of cattle so that you can get your cow products is staggering. The Saudis are not the biggest issue here. The cattle industry is.

  • @myusernameisnotfound
    @myusernameisnotfound ปีที่แล้ว +15

    It’s about F..n time this is getting the attention it needs. I used to haul hay from AZ to CA ports to be shipped to Saudi. I felt horrible about it. I’m from AZ this is home and the Saudi’s are taking our water. WHY in God’s green earth can this happening? Thank you for shedding light to this problem. Stupid politicians let it happen.

  • @hunterchannel488
    @hunterchannel488 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Absolutely insane that our own government would allow this to happen, the government does not prioritize American people anymore. We absolutely need to take back our country.

  • @deepchange2973
    @deepchange2973 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God bless Saudi Arabia

  • @cynthiarowley719
    @cynthiarowley719 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I guess it's legal. Nestle does this, too.

    • @amandahealey2216
      @amandahealey2216 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To be fair, people aren't happy about that either

    • @waleed8530
      @waleed8530 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@amandahealey2216 feelings don't matter, its business after all, and yanks love money.

    • @danieluffner3298
      @danieluffner3298 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@waleed8530HUMANS love money. Greed existed long before the term "yanks" was coined.

  • @InDaSun60
    @InDaSun60 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I don’t know what our previous Attorney General was doing while in office, too busy worrying about revoking women’s reproductive rights. He should have been focusing on this!

    • @jasonlarsen4945
      @jasonlarsen4945 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He was probably vacationing with Saudi Money.

  • @NEWLIGHTAFRICA
    @NEWLIGHTAFRICA ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The US is in Africa extracting minerals and shipping it back to America, while Africans are suffering, how about that?

  • @sierbehashti3166
    @sierbehashti3166 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Foreign companies should not be able to own US farmland and waste our resources. There needs to be better water regulation and restriction for any foreign company in the area, or just ban foreign companies from farming on US land all together

    • @Omer1996E.C
      @Omer1996E.C ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Then the us should be banned from investing abroad. Let US companies go back to the US, and you'll suddenly hear a wave of bankruptcies.
      The problem is with regulation, not with being foreigner or not

    • @craigb8228
      @craigb8228 ปีที่แล้ว

      Most US Natural Resources are owned by foreign countries like Russia and China.

    • @danoalex2977
      @danoalex2977 ปีที่แล้ว

      If it wasn’t for black gold, the Middle East would be eating sand

    • @shyrafrancisco2248
      @shyrafrancisco2248 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Saudi Arabia should keep all of their oil for domestic use instead of selling it to other countries!

    • @danoalex2977
      @danoalex2977 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shyrafrancisco2248 if they didn’t sell it, they would have nothing.Oil is only valuable if it can be used, westerners developed cars, plastics etc to make it valuable.

  • @carlsanders7919
    @carlsanders7919 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Same thing with mining. Water usage not regulated. And most minerals shipped over seas and most mining companies foreign owned.

  • @ProGaming-tc9jp
    @ProGaming-tc9jp ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Whats actually insane is people choose to live in a desert and are surprised there’s not enough water lol

    • @guze_wolf9973
      @guze_wolf9973 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah that’s how the oil was found and being used by the whole world , Saudi have water from the sea and lakes, the problem is that it’s a bad place to grow anything

  • @michellelester243
    @michellelester243 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is happening in Eastern Washington State as well, draining the Yakima River Valley.

  • @fredreinke4150
    @fredreinke4150 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If in this day and age, Arizona has "no regulations on how much water can be pumped out of the ground " they are responsible also. Poor resource management.

  • @gadogadopedes2303
    @gadogadopedes2303 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They shipped water? And for cows? That's crazy

  • @kylegoldston
    @kylegoldston ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Sounds like a prime case for actual regulations.

  • @MrLilten
    @MrLilten ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Sounds like what American companies do to other countries

    • @raisschultz420
      @raisschultz420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Name one example that isn't from 30 years ago

    • @avocadotoast4934
      @avocadotoast4934 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly, especially they actually signed a legal lease. Why approve the lease if they don't allow it now?

    • @j.a.3138
      @j.a.3138 ปีที่แล้ว

      Name one company that is doing the same thing? Exactly.

  • @daegaskins3340
    @daegaskins3340 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    who is letting foreign & enemy countries own american land period… like seriously who thought this was a good idea because we need them in jail because clearly they treasonous.

  • @wallacegrommet9343
    @wallacegrommet9343 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    When a state bans agricultural water usage monitoring, this is what happens.

  • @fourbirdstos
    @fourbirdstos ปีที่แล้ว +29

    It would be interesting to know who acted in behalf of the state of Arizona to set this up.

    • @greedo2660
      @greedo2660 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jared Kushner was probably involved.

    • @Synthwave89
      @Synthwave89 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's quite convenient they didn't give out any names. Someone made a killing with Saudi money, mark my words.

  • @pallidavisholubar7273
    @pallidavisholubar7273 ปีที่แล้ว

    Water wars were a subject I read about in grade school and now that I'm 74 it is finally in the News, good public policy can stop or prevent this kind of corruption.

  • @nyspice1966
    @nyspice1966 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    We need all our water to feed our own cities!!

    • @V8V88
      @V8V88 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      But we need this water to feed our cows. No offence, but our cows are more important.

    • @magesalmanac6424
      @magesalmanac6424 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What… cows aren’t more important than humans.

    • @shyrafrancisco2248
      @shyrafrancisco2248 ปีที่แล้ว

      We need to reduce human overpopulation before they destroy the planet.

  • @kristinamikkelsoncasanova6287
    @kristinamikkelsoncasanova6287 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I hope they stop them. I am a Arizonan and water is becoming very difficult to find.

  • @350Carmine
    @350Carmine ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please don’t say protecting the planet, the earth will be here long after we get decimated 💀

  • @cassandrajackson8560
    @cassandrajackson8560 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Why is the US allowing this, just why? 😡

    • @derekh1593
      @derekh1593 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Neil Deep Says the person who don't know about California and China as well as California and Saudi Arabia's deal 😂

    • @hadtosaythis
      @hadtosaythis ปีที่แล้ว +1

      capitalism

    • @fan.80s_90s
      @fan.80s_90s ปีที่แล้ว

      Red states need Saudi money.

    • @derekh1593
      @derekh1593 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fan.80s_90s Including blue states like California when Saudi Arabia bought land there in 2015 for water 😂

    • @fan.80s_90s
      @fan.80s_90s ปีที่แล้ว

      @@derekh1593 Republicans are obsessed with the Saudis.

  • @glass1258
    @glass1258 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Charge saudis 120$ a barrel for every barrel of water they pump out

    • @goodfox9250
      @goodfox9250 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Perfect response.

    • @mohammedchamp9139
      @mohammedchamp9139 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Contract has been signed

    • @johnnytijerina4122
      @johnnytijerina4122 ปีที่แล้ว

      So .. they’re using alfalfa.. let’s say they didn’t own the land .. they buy it from farmers.. the water still got used and sent to Saudi .. is it about water or money and the missed opportunity to make it?

    • @Kr4zYm0f0
      @Kr4zYm0f0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnnytijerina4122 thats what they did before they got directly involved but people in this comment section like to focus about saudi arabia

  • @ishmaelmcduffey6676
    @ishmaelmcduffey6676 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why are other countries farming here.. wtf

  • @youxkio
    @youxkio ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Knowing Murica, just let deplete the water and see what happens next?

  • @longliveliberty2257
    @longliveliberty2257 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How in the world is allowing foreign companies to buy agricultural land is beyond my imagination. Those countries will not allow foreigners to work in their countries freely let alone buy land.

    • @619ota
      @619ota ปีที่แล้ว

      They also forgot to mention that the Alfalfa is sold at 1/5 the price to the Saudis compared to the rest of Americans. And its gotta be shipped half way around the world.

  • @JYYP-jz7qq
    @JYYP-jz7qq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Unfortunately this is only news when the company is foreign.

  • @fenderfox5080
    @fenderfox5080 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I spent this winter in lake Havasu for the first time and I'm from WI, we could tell who had money and who didn't by the amount of palm trees in their landscaped yards and how much grass they had lol, plus the fact we went to a nursery that had baby palm trees for sale, 600$ was the cheapest. Some houses had 10 or more, it was a funny thing to drive around and see that. Obviously the water crisis isn't funny but then seeing the yards with gravel instead of grass was weird. I hope this gets solved

    • @awildtannerwasfound5045
      @awildtannerwasfound5045 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There's no solving the water crisis because the southwest doesn't have the water to support the current human population in the area. Its not so much that there is less water, its the fact that with all the new people, the water supplies there before are now insufficient. Please don't move to Arizona. Don't be lured by cheap houses or land- warm climate, our desert and our agriculture can't suffice no longer with the current explosion of growth.

    • @fenderfox5080
      @fenderfox5080 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@awildtannerwasfound5045 although AZ would be an amazing place to move I'm going to stay in WI and maybe go to AZ for the winters. This is my second time to AZ and first full winter away from WI. I hate snow but this winter even az was cold and rainy and horribly windy at times. I agree there's not enough water

  • @Sheri_L89
    @Sheri_L89 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow that is crazy and mind blowing that the government would allow such thing to happen in our country, to one of our states. I'm all for the U.S. making business overseas but in an advantage that will help us as well to where it's a win win situation. This needs to be fixed immediately! The people need to stand against this or nothing will change or be done to help the state of Arizona.

    • @EridanusYT
      @EridanusYT ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you think that the state of Arizona isn't winning a lot of money back and I mean A LOT from that Saudi owned company or else why would they be okay with it in first place!
      that tells me that it is a win-win situation at least in the officials eyes which at the end of the day the one who legally allows stuff so I wouldn't call it a win-lose situation they must be getting A LOT OF MONEY in return

    • @EridanusYT
      @EridanusYT ปีที่แล้ว

      You all angry but with respect didn't the US come to Middle East and spread chaos and invade countries like Iraq and even stole stuff from the Middle East in history!?
      what about taking the Saudi oil for years when an American company was digging the oil for the Saudis and giving them barely enough and taking most of it back to America for free!
      till Saudi decided to make Aramco a Saudi company owned to the country of Saudi Arabia! so in history USA did the same for many and many years to the Saudi oil. It's just returning the favour if you ask me.

  • @hamiam2659
    @hamiam2659 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This isn’t the only one, China is doing this to us too.

    • @IamLeighton
      @IamLeighton ปีที่แล้ว

      it's not illegal

    • @joet7136
      @joet7136 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@IamLeighton no, it's just immoral.

    • @johalun
      @johalun ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wrong. We’re doing it to ourselves. Nothing else.

    • @hamiam2659
      @hamiam2659 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@IamLeighton it’s not illegal, but it’s definitely wrong. Those towel heads need to go grow that in their own country.

  • @CatJuarez
    @CatJuarez ปีที่แล้ว +4

    WOW when I lived in AZ years ago ..locals were against California using their water. Now this😮

  • @blumobean
    @blumobean ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The intelligence of our country is amazing.

  • @johnwayne3904
    @johnwayne3904 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Things like this make me more angry than anything else I can think of right now. What these vultures are doing is VERY inconsiderate and SO disrespectful to all the other land owners in the area. 😡

    • @risefromredclay
      @risefromredclay ปีที่แล้ว

      your savior "POLITICS" sold us out huh

  • @Cp-jv6mf
    @Cp-jv6mf ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wtf??? $25 an acre rental that is insane

  • @TheDeadMan3848
    @TheDeadMan3848 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Question is: What are our politicians going to do about it?

  • @DanStratocaster1
    @DanStratocaster1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No one seems to want to admit that there’s way too many people living in Arizona in the first place.

  • @crissmith7963
    @crissmith7963 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We are being taught that more building is the road to Nirvana, however, sorry to say, we can't get any nutrition from chewing on building materials.
    Also, more raw materials generally means more environmentally destructive mining plus more forests cut down.
    We need our water supply and farmlands.

  • @johnzonker6517
    @johnzonker6517 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My question is this, what laws are they breaking?

    • @j.a.3138
      @j.a.3138 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is no law at the moment but there will be soon.

  • @franzwaltenspuhl8892
    @franzwaltenspuhl8892 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Most likely happening elsewhere too😞

  • @carolynbrzezinski5779
    @carolynbrzezinski5779 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Outrageous that #Arizona ALLOWS GROWING THIS CROP no matter who is growing it.
    #MegaDrought #WaterScaracity #Drought

  • @beepboop5038
    @beepboop5038 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Jared Kushner!

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Most of our agricultural practices are unsustainable due to over pumping of groundwater, over use of surface water, excess soil erosion, etc. We'll have a hard time feeding the anticipated 9-10 BILLION global population with dwindling agricultural resources.

    • @puraLusa
      @puraLusa ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The saddest part is that agro-engeneering has already produced better tech, more sustainable etc, but these aren't used.

    • @mathgasm8484
      @mathgasm8484 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@puraLusa I grow crops and I use drip irrigation at like 3 am.

    • @puraLusa
      @puraLusa ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mathgasm8484 yup, that's an example. Also, having trees and pounds, etc. Using natural fertilizers, etc. But big business should already be adapting to even more high tech (for the scale) like hidroponics in areas of high rain incidence as opose of areas prone to drought. Sometimes just having lines of natural forests (regen agriculture has that ability) crossing the big properties helps to retain watter. Using clowd catchers as opose to dry watter natural reservoirs that are there for a reason, etc. Agronomy is one of the scientific fields who has a lot of new/ old tech that food producers don't care to keep up to date and invest wisely. Weird cause their investment in the long run would give out more 🤷‍♀️

    • @Group_Anonymous
      @Group_Anonymous ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That’s why Elon Musk plans to occupy Mars. Earth is doomed

    • @TORNTOA
      @TORNTOA ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Massive greenhouses like the ones the Dutch use are needed in Az. As well as a desalination plant and pipeline from the sea of Cortez. There are plenty of solutions to Arizona’s problems, the media would prefer you to hate on saudis instead.

  • @AzFigz
    @AzFigz ปีที่แล้ว

    This upsets me deeply

  • @yeboscrebo4451
    @yeboscrebo4451 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mark my words, they’ll start regulating the Arizonans access to the water, like they did in California, instead of actually fixing the problem by denying foreign entities access to our farmland.

    • @awildtannerwasfound5045
      @awildtannerwasfound5045 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eh my friend the current agriculture being used in our southwestern states could never last for long. There Ain't less water now than 100 years ago. Just the new people moving here expect the same things they had back in the northeast or far west. I'd personally prefer to see all of Arizona's agricultural land be dedicated to ranching rather than any farming as the desert can only take so much pressure. It has just enough to survive, too little would make it look like Saudi Arabia, too much would make the desert go away.

    • @MOHIE6
      @MOHIE6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats the democrats for ya. Why would the democrats fix it if they can keep using it to judge republicans and blame republicans and get votes from it? haha

  • @leanna2624
    @leanna2624 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Yes!!!! Keep talking about this issue. It's been happening for years. This happens in other states as well. It's gone in long enough. Tell them no more stealing our water!!!

    • @dom1abc1mbc
      @dom1abc1mbc ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thats not stealing, they bought the right, invested in and employed your people, imported your product and raised your gdp, you should be thankful to saudi arabia

  • @georgetarbutton8752
    @georgetarbutton8752 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah. . The officials that signed the leases got big money bribes.

  • @sasquatchwithinternetacces2940
    @sasquatchwithinternetacces2940 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The US should not allow any foreign entity to own any farming, drilling, mining, or hunting interests in America. We need to protect our natural resources and save them for ourselves.

    • @mohamedb6645
      @mohamedb6645 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      AMERICA DO THING LIKE THIS IN OTHER COUNTRIES ALSO AMERICA SHOULD HAVE GOOD RELATION WITH SAOUDI FOR OIL

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also homes. It should all be RECIPROCAL. An American expat is PROHIBITED from buying ANY land in any country in Asia. You can't even buy a shack on a quarter-acre if you are married to a local.

    • @shyrafrancisco2248
      @shyrafrancisco2248 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Saudi Arabia should protect their natural resources and stop exporting oil.

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shyrafrancisco2248 Why? They can't eat it. They need a lot of things more than oil. The oil is only a bounty revenue for them anyway because the white man found it and the white man invented the technology to use it (refine it, etc.).

  • @hus390
    @hus390 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Foreign owned is not a problem per say, if they are investigating it in a mutually beneficial way. In this case, they actually leased the land, and didn't bought it. The use is the problem. Here the harm to AZ far exceeds any benefits (badly needed fresh water are taken for fractions of a cent, and used to grow a crop that will be shipped overseas).

  • @rayrussell6258
    @rayrussell6258 ปีที่แล้ว

    Arizona's approval of this water for the Saudi land was withdrawn. Not sure why youtube has not deleted this video for "misinformation".
    In fact, not sure if CBS thoroughly reviewed this story with Arizona authorities before putting it on the air. Wouldn't be the first time the media has created false or fake controversy to generate self-"relevance".

  • @corrineharper1050
    @corrineharper1050 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sad that our country supports other countries more then it does its own ppl

    • @Teeveepicksures
      @Teeveepicksures ปีที่แล้ว

      It isn't the country, it's the State of Arizona.

    • @corrineharper1050
      @corrineharper1050 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Teeveepicksures WHAT? It is the country THEY SEND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO HELP OTHER COUNTRIES OUT WHETHER ITS FOR WAR HUNGRNESS ETC WE HAVE A WATER SHORTAGE IN NOT JUST ARIZONA BUT CALIFORNIA AND COLORADO AND WE LETTING ANOTHER COUNTRY JUST SUCK UP OUR GROUND WATER THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS FACING A HOMELESS PROBLEM AND THE GOVERNMENT IS CHARGING $25 DOLLARS PER ACRE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY LET THAT BE AN AMERICAN PAYING PER ACRE AND IT WOULD HUNDREDS MAYBE EVEN THOUSANDS PER ACRE I'VE SEEN LOTS OF OTHER PPL FROM OTHER COUNTRIES COME TO AMERICA AND BECOME BUSINESS OWNERS AND GETS LOAN AND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM OUR GOVERNMENT SO YES IT IS THIS COUNTRY

  • @oscarsobsession
    @oscarsobsession ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is literally insane.

  • @parallax_xix
    @parallax_xix ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Better start talking about nestle too...