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PHOENIX — State Auditor General Lindsey Perry is blasting the State Land Department for leasing land to a Saudi-owned company in western Arizona for below-market rates and not requiring it

PHOENIX — State Auditor General Lindsey Perry is blasting the State Land Department for leasing land to a Saudi-owned company in western Arizona for below-market rates and not requiring it

Arizona’s Auditor General has released a scathing report, criticizing the State Land Department for leasing land to a Saudi-owned company in western Arizona at cheap rates.The company, Fondomonte, used the land — and the groundwater beneath it — to grow alfalfa for dairy cattle in the Middle East.State Auditor General Lindsey Perry says the Land Department’s practices for

Arizona’s auditor general is blasting the state Land Department for leasing land to a Saudi-owned company for below-market rates and not requiring it to pay for — or even report

A heating planet and expanding commercial agriculture are putting increasing pressure on America’s vital aquifers — underground reservoirs that supply water to an estimated 145 million Americans, as well as supporting much of the nation’s food supply. New research published Tuesday in Nature uncovered rapid and accelerating declines in underground water sources across the world, with some of the…

A heating planet and expanding commercial agriculture are putting increasing pressure on America’s vital aquifers — underground reservoirs that supply water to an estimated 145 million Americans, as well as supporting much of the nation’s food supply.

Residents in one western Arizona community worry that a clean energy company, which plans to build nearby, could hog their groundwater supply.