Saudi Arabia Using 140-Year-Old Loophole To Soak Up California's Scarce Water Supply

A Saudi owned company bought ground, is growing alfalfa, and exporting it to Saudi Arabia. They permanently employee 100 people locally, providing 401k and healthcare. They hire more seasonally.

If the Saudi company didn't do it. Someone else would.

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That said - UC Davis professor and alfalfa expert Dan Putnam wonders why there's little to no outrage over crops which are far more water intensive, such as almonds, which California ships 70% of overseas. "Or oranges? Or lettuce?"

How many foreign companies own property, grow food, and ship it overseas from CA?

Eventually, it may become a campaign issue. One where the authoritarians use the majority to strip the minority of century old water rights because "LA deserves the water more". Typical socialism. Use theirs up and ask for other's share. The easiest way for CA to ease it's drought concerns is to send their illegal population back across the southern border.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news...ace/630370002/

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Saudi Arabia Using 140-Year-Old Loophole To Soak Up California's Scarce Water Supply