This Sonoran Desert field of green, cultivated by a Saudi Arabian dairy giant, has become a flashpoint among residents, who resent the Middle Eastern company’s unbridled — and steeply discounted — usage of a dwindling regional resource.
...La Paz and most of its neighbors do not contain “Active Management Areas” (AMAs), zones that require groundwater regulation under state code. Just five parts of the state — including Phoenix and Tucson — have AMAs, while rural agricultural areas have no such protections.
...This nonrestrictive environment has attracted not only local and domestic farmers, but also international companies that are unable to grow such water-intensive crops at home.
...With discussions of future cutbacks already on the horizon, Saudi Arabian dairy giant Almarai secured 9,834 acres in Vicksburg in a $47.5 million deal — through its fully owned subsidiary Fondomonte Arizona LLC — in March 2014. Nearly two years later, Almarai announced a $31.8 million deal for 1,790 acres in Southern California...MORE
Please note the language in this supposedly objective article, when referring to a less-regulated area:
"unbridled"
rural agricultural areas have no such "protections"
“So it’s like a free for all.”
“If you’re in an AMA, you have water security, you have water certainty. If you’re outside of the AMA, it’s the Wild West.”
If you live in a less-regulated area you must suffer from "unbridled" conditions, you have no "protections", it is a "free for all" and terribly like the "Wild West".
On the other hand, if you live in a more regulated area, you have "security" and "certainty"
Really? Turning control of our resources over to the politicians brings all these wonderful things?
No, political control provides only one thing, and that is the "certainty" you will be less "secure" in all your endeavors.
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