'We cannot save the Colorado River without combating corporate power,' foodandwater asserts in a new report on Big Ag's misuse of water and the federal government's failure to address it.
—focuses on how"alfalfa farms and the aggressive proliferation of megadairies" are"sucking the Colorado dry," and on"prolonged governmental refusal to rein in the most egregious offenders."
"This is enough water to meet the indoor household needs of all the nearly 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River system for water for three-and-a-half years," the publication states.The paper notes that the Almarai Company, a Saudi multinational,"owns 10,000 acres of Arizona farmland, cultivating alfalfa to support dairies in Saudi Arabia; the country banned alfalfa cultivation in 2018 in order to conserve water.
Restricting federal conservation dollars from being used to prop up factory farms and alfalfa acreage;Stopping new and expanding large-scale tree nut and alfalfa acreage; Improving water management practices by defining all water as a public trust resource, not a commodity subject to resource extraction at the expense of the public.
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