Residents and local officials say lax groundwater laws give agriculture the upper hand, allowing farms to pump unlimited water as long as they own or lease the property to drill wells into. In around 80% of the state, Arizona has no laws overseeing how much water corporate megafarms are using, nor is there any way for the state to track it…
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Monday, November 7, 2022
Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas | CNN
Gary Saiter, a longtime resident and head of the Wenden Water Improvement District, said the water was moving because it was being pumped rapidly out of the ground by a neighboring well belonging to Al Dahra, a United Arab Emirates-based company farming alfalfa in the Southwest…
Sunday, August 18, 2019
In 100 Years, 1 Million Black Families Have Been Ripped From Their Farms (On Point)
Over the last century, African Americans were dispossessed of millions of acres of land. We look at the story of black-owned farmland in Mississippi.
Interview:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/08/15/black-land-robbery-atlantic-mississippi-delta-farms-vann-newkirk
Interview:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/08/15/black-land-robbery-atlantic-mississippi-delta-farms-vann-newkirk
Thursday, April 26, 2018
ICE handcuffed a legal citizen after raiding his farm without a warrant, report says - VICE
ICE has refused to answer questions about the raid. ....
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/7xdavq/ice-handcuffed-a-legal-citizen-after-raiding-his-farm-without-a-warrant
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/7xdavq/ice-handcuffed-a-legal-citizen-after-raiding-his-farm-without-a-warrant
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