Gov. Katie Hobbs’ administration on Monday announced two steps to stop a controversial Saudi Arabian company from using groundwater beneath state land in western Arizona to grow and export alfalfa.
Hobbs said in a statement that the Arizona State Land Department had canceled one of its leases to Fondomonte Arizona, and would not renew three others that are set to expire in February.
I just don’t see how that could be accomplished legally or politically.
Subsidies, taxes, tax credits, zoning, etc.
Maybe. (1) I don’t think there’s the political will to enact anything like that & (2) I don’t think that would entice as many people as you think. People get really attached to their home. These areas are growing. The population in the southwest has grown over 11% in the last decade and it’s projected to continue to grow.
Doesn’t address the entire cities already there. We ain’t forcing entire cities to just abandon ship.
It’s far more useful if we talk about actually making what’s already there sustainable rather than some authoritarian march out of the deserts.