Drought-stricken US southwest pays the price for Gulf-owned farms exporting ‘virtual water’
INTERNATIONAL In Arizona's La Paz county, about two and a half hours from the state capital Phoenix, the community has been facing an increasingly severe issue. They're running out of water. As the entire American southwest faces the worst drought in 1,200 years, underground aquifers are being looked to as a lifeline. But water workers in the county have recently noted that some wells are running dry. At the same time, Saudi and Emirati companies owning or leasing […]
