Monday, March 25, 2019

SAUDI's BUYING UP LAND BY BLYTHE COLORADO RIVER "Who keeps buying California's scarce water? Saudi Arabia "

"In 2012, they acquired 30,000 acres of land in Argentina, and in 2014, they bought their first swath of land in Arizona. Then, in 2015, they bought 1,700 acres in Blythe – a vast, loamy, agricultural metropolis abutting the Colorado river, where everything but the alfalfa seems cast in the hue of sand. Four years later, the company owns 15,000 acres – 16% of the entire irrigated valley."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-water-drought-scarce-saudi-arabia