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March 11, 2024

Arizona turns off taps to Saudi farm

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona officials say a Saudi-owned company they targeted over its use of virtually unfettered amounts of groundwater to grow forage crops is moving its farming operation out of a valley in the Southwestern state's rural west.

Gov. Katie Hobbs and the Arizona State Land Department announced late Thursday that Fondomonte Arizona is officially no longer pumping water in the Butler Valley groundwater basin.


 
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