In This Town, Only The Rich Get Water
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Water is running out in Pearce, Arizona. Residents tell us that their wells are running dry. Meanwhile, a massive dairy farm is using 900 million gallons of water each year.
But it's not just Pearce. This is happening across Arizona, where corporations are racing to profit off of the state's disappearing water.
But there's a way to stop them.
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You cannot convince me that taking 900 million gallons a year doesn't affect the local wells going dry suddenly
They just have to dig deeper - billionaire corporations
they dont have to convince YOU. You dont have the power to stop them. They have to convince congress, and its a lot easier to believe when that belief comes with a lot of, lets say financial incentives.
Is this connected to that Saudi Arabia deal? "For nearly a decade, the state of Arizona has leased this rural terrain west of Phoenix to a Saudi-owned company, allowing it to pump all the water it needs to grow the alfalfa hay - a crop it exports to feed the kingdom's dairy cows. And, for years, the state did not know how much water the company was consuming."
"Regulation" is just what rich people call "the law". The rich don't like "the law" against them, so that's why they tell us to vote for "de" regulations. At some point Americans will have to wake up Republicans are not on our side. This is what Republican "deregulations" get you. Don't be fooled, like Arizona was. Now foreign companies are coming in taking advantage of America's "lawless" capitalism. Capitalism without law/regulations is the wild wild west all over again. Been there done that. Let's not repeat history.
You cannot convince anyone.
@@Metal0sopher actually this AZ case involve a rural loophole, you can argue they deregulation when the law was made, but now the people are screwed regardless
"I don't know how they have the heart to do it." That's the thing buddy they don't have hearts anymore. The rich don't see us as people anymore.
In the Middle Ages, the fear of punishment in the afterlife motivated people to make the best decisions possible.
Now it's about money and conquest. If they're rewarded, those guys are still going to do it. As long as there's no consequences.
It's a colonial mindset.
In the Middle Ages, it was the underworld that convinced people not to do unethical things.
Now it's about money. If they're rewarded for doing something unethical: They will keep doing it.
I mean. What consequences is there for them?
Nor do Saudi Arabians give a shit about Americans
I think it's more a form of deliberate blindness mixed with not being held accountable for their actions. They may know at some level that they're doing bad, but it's not "real" to them because it's not affecting them, and much of the time, they don't even see or hear about the people they are hurting. Adding insult to injury, their wealth also gives them a much bigger voice than the people they're hurting. The people being hurt are lucky to get a 10 minute news segment, while the corporations can functionally buy politicians.
@@eksbocks9438
Unfortunately, the threat of the underworld wasn't enough. The people who saw the Red Sea split in half, and who were spared in passover, still decided to worship an idol of a golden calf. The people who witnessed the Holy Prophet tell everyone to follow Ali, still decided to follow Abu Bakr, then Omar, then Uthman, then Muawiya.
Imagine growing alfalfa in the desert. What a ludicrous thing to do.
The land is cheap.
Yet it's happening with impunity. Imagine that.
@@Deontjie
Privatize the profits and socialize the losses, amirite?
Politicians like the quick injections of cash to the state's pockets. They do not care that quick money also means a quicker destruction to their state.
Absolutely no reason that any 1 person or company should be milking or raising farming 75,000 cows!
There is a demand for it.. but the only way to fight this is to not eat meat and protest. But Us is addicted to meat and the meat culture.
Isnt that contrary to the WEF green agenda?
... while the regular ranchers, get their ranches set on fire, and lose thousands of head of cattle, and their lively hoods. It's sickening.
@@louisehenari4916the ranches get caught on fire because of ranching. Cattle in general are so water intensive esp in drought prone areas. We need to stop with beef and dairy production ASAP
@@narrgamedesigner2747 Africa has no shortage of beef, hell go to India, lots of holy cows to eat.
Because the people taking the water don't live there and don't care about the consequences.
And even worse, some of the people around Phoenix are using "grey water" .
Yes, recycled human waste water.
Grey water is not human waste water, it comes from showers and washing machines and can only be used for certain non-consumption purposes. Phoenix does recycle affluent (waste water) but only for industrial purposes, and they should absolutely be doing that because we don’t have enough water to not be recycling it.
@@aeonoa Look up "Primary Water"! We are Not Running out of water. You're falling for the Matrix FEAR narrative! They're controlling the weather with technology - "They" Are CREATING the Drought! There is no drought other than what the politicians have been paid for by lobbyists ...
@@aeonoa so citizens of Arizona are forced to use grey water, and the Saudis and other foreigners are entitled to just take clean water from the ground! Yes not fair at all! The grey water should be diverted to the Saudis and foreigners or they can go back to their country to do whatever they want
But it still takes lawyers and politicians here in the USA to take this water.
Why are they even farming in AZ when we are paying farmers not to grow crops in places that DO have water?
Yeah, just bring in the alfalfa from other places where there is more water. Just insane.
Where does all the alfalfa get shipped to?
No idea. I live here and and I ask myself, why do we have a golf course so renowned, that the WM open is held here ever year... in the desert.
AZ has zero water use regulations
@@user-ie2pn9jg2t much goes to Saudi Arabia.
The small, rural, southern Colorado town I live in had its water sold to the highest bidder, without allowing input from the residents. Our towns' flat rates are over $100/mo. Wells are going dry, the town is trying "experimental" programs to miraculously produce water. Drought, over use, and the rich are killing us. Realtors don't tell this to people moving to our area, it's strictly "buyer beware". I'm watching wildlife disappear. Our forests and plains are drying up.
Keep voting red and see what you get. Maybe Boebert can save you.
@tho464 Keep thinking there's a difference between the 2 parties. Don't be a fool. It's the rich and powerful spreading their money across both parties to get what they want.
@@tho464 You think blue is better?
Is this one of the alfalfa growers selling it to a foreign country that itself has banned growing alfalfa because it is so water-intensive? Ugh.
You (accidentally?) point out the superficial reporting, but "video emotional impact" seems to be More Perfect Union's angle. Not terrible, as emotions can be motivating to some. Facts/history/context can be motivating to others.
it is...the Saudi company......idk what this other guy blabbering about
A company from Minnesota is doing it too
They are also doing this in Minnesota
This shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
It’s very clear who the villlains are here. We need to ban the farming of water intensive crops in the arid south west and subsidizing the corporate megafarms doing it. Absolutely sickening.
Have you watched anything about RFK Jr? He’s definitely the man for this type of job.
@@TimW668 😂😂😂😂
Are you being serious?@TimW668
@@cyndeeh absolutely!
@@TimW668 wow. He's not the man for ANY JOB. HAVEN'T YOU HEARD? HE'S LOONEY TUNES
Our country ONLY makes and enforces rules for “the poor people”(meaning anyone not a millionaire or billionaire) …..NOT all the rich, who line politicians pockets. 😡
It's always the outliers and "peasants."
The real instigators never face any consequences.
Because we vote for “free market”, no rules or government intervention politicians. We don’t want those socialists tell what businesses can and can’t not do. So you got effective “job creators” squeezing lazy folks out. Isn’t it American way?
If you learn about real history/(about the propaganda of corperations/history),you would know the u.s. was only made rich people to have power.
(the founding farthers wanted america to be fascist.)(go research the revilution and then see why states get to be independent=fascism.).
@@eksbocks9438
Do you know what percentage of Americans are billionaires?
Do you know what percentage of Americans are Millionaire???
Do you know what percentage of Americans are upper middle class???
Do you know what percentage of Americans are middle class???
Do you know the percentage of Americans are below middle class???
Do you know the percentage of Americans below poverty???
Native Indians are below poverty... their average yearly income is around 4 to 5 thousand per family...YES!!!
Also, check education levels...
And also...consider all of the choices and opportunities that our freedom, and capitalism has provided to every America since it's beginning...
You have a phone Google it... You will learn that your thoughts are incorrect!!!
THIS IS A PO.LITI.CAL ISSUE...
PO.LITIC'S CONTROL THE PURSE STRINGS!!!!
Yes, Americans are currently living in a two-tiered justice system...
RULES FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME!!!
Media has also been manipulated to the point of it being tainted and unreliable!!!
Our issue is NOT capitalism...
IT'S POLITICAL MANIPULATION.
IT'S GREED FROM A CHOSEN FEW.
AND..IT'S IN PART DUE TO THOSE WHO IGNORE THE POLITICAL DISTRUCTION HAPPENING AROUND THEM EVERY DAY...
YET, STILL BASE THEIR OPINIONS ON EMOTIONAL HANDICAPS VERSUS TRUTH!
People decrying regulations all the time as standing in the way of business and freedom. This is why having regulations, and the enforcement of them, are important.
Exactly
I'm willing to bet that these people who can't get water are the EXACT same people who say the government is too big and shouldn't be regulating anything. 🤡🤡🤡
Yep. They voted for the government, and let's be honest and say the Republican party. They wanted those people in charge. Now they're reaping what they sowed.
@@davidfaustino4476the man in the video literally said "I thought the economy would always take care of it." They always want no regulation until the corporations start hurting them, social regression until they or someone they love are in the out-group.
Important observation.
Reminds me of the Caribbean. Local people have a hard time getting access to municipal water but guess who has water? Golf courses, resorts, etc.
This shit has been going on for years with the indigenous native population. They have/had no access to clean water either.
When we are all dead, along with the rest of life on this planet. 😢
You know they tryed to tell us that are government had fork tongues and we didn't listen .
It will stop when we the people stop it, and only then.
If you read history, you understand there is no "end"...just more.
Ask the politicians who took an oath of office to defend the people and have failed miserably.
This is what class warfare looks like. We live in a corrupt oligarchy. We need ranked-choice voting, ballot access, and more parties.
But that would begin the process of fixing things. We have to keep making America great by not doing any of that and building a wall on people's property that can be climbed over
Ballot access and more parties, absolutely. But rank choice voting can go south fast.
And larger legislatures, at the local, state, and federal level. For a place so many proudly state is a "constitutional republic, not a democracy" despite the first three words of that constitution, we're literally the second least republican government in the world. Only India's national legislature has more people per member than ours does, and they have 1.4 billion people. We barely have a fifth of that, and the argument against expanding our legislatures boils down to "the building is too small".
@@doomsdayrabbit4398
Wow... Are you like, 19 yrs old? Where did you get your "facts" from? 😂😂😂
@@jenh9361 Which part are you disputing?
a dairy farm in a DESERT??? insanity.
Bill Gates maybe?!
@@shannoncook9915 even he can't be that stupid.
There are a couple of dairies in this area. But these huge crops are certainly not helping either. They couldn't care less about the residents. And it can cost over $175 to have water delivered if you don't have a water tote and a truck and trailer to go to town and get your own. We even collect what rainwater we can to supplement our water, all while conserving in every way we can. This is horrific for the residents. This needs to be stopped. They are destroying the water table. And the state is allowing it to continue.
@@CalamityJane-ob4dh corporations don't care. the wealthy don't care. politicians don't care. we are not attending to a very real threat and humans never do until disaster occurs. climate change will wipe out humans and other large animals because the people with power just don't care.
More Perfect Union is doing work on another level, it is unreal. You cover the stories that even conservatives should be able to rally behind, you find the most charismatic people to tell their stories (like wow Mr. Curry can talk), you ask the right questions, you always show us the insides of the homes of the people you interview to show that they are real people, you shoot beautiful footage on location, this is the formula, man. You are doing more for class struggle than any streamer in an LED covered room trying to beef with conservatives online
Yes, indeed. Was beautiful, we're really all in the same boat class- wise.
You know when a parasite finds a new host. Is the perfect example of late stage capitalism
It is.
Yes, so true!! I guess the invisible hand of the market isn't gonna solve this one huh😂
"Parasite" describes capitalism as a whole. It latches onto a society and exploits until only a small group of people own everything. It's the greatest scam in history
@@curlescrew5903market is solving it “ market way”. People often forget that they might be on the losing end of the market preferences when voting for “free market” no government regulations politicians
Wow... Who's decided to ig.n.ore the timeline in which this all has occurred???
I mean, really...
GET YOU HE.ADS OUT OF THE S.AND!!!
Stop trying to blame everything, but the cause of this an.ti-Am.e.ri.can tak.eove.r!!!
This l.a.nd gr.ab is happening all across the entire co.un.try!!! It's all part of the de.mon'c.rats age.nda...
Cap.ita.lism has made this cou.ntry a strong leader in the world and has provided bigger and better opportunities than any other cou.ntry in the world!!!!!
And... the most important part, we are all FREE...
We're ALL free to make decisions, to succeed or to fail...by our choice!!!
THIS IS GREED... AND POLITICS!!!
The de.mon'c.rats have held 100% MA.JOR.ITY OF ALL THR.EE BR.A.N.CHES OF THE GO.V.ERN.ME.NT FOR 2.5 YEARS FROM 2.020, and 2/3's for the past half year!
Are you really going to question who's responsible for this??? Seriously???
FLINT Still Dosen't Have Clean Drinking Water💧
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whats the source on that?
It probably never will....😢
@@tcolbert1962Bad pipes I think it was?
Yes and no. All pipes degrade over time, metal pipes leach metal into the water. After a few years though, this kind of stabilizes with the pipe getting an insulating layer of oxidation and biofilm on the inside. The problem with Flint was they switched water sources and didn't treat the new water properly, drastically changing the PH in the system over night. This broke up the oxidation and biofilm and caused an exponential increase in the metals leaching out of the plumbing (think of a piece of steel sitting in water vs in salt water or bleach). It went on unchecked for so long that it became unfixable. Not only did they have to fix the water treatment system, they have to replace every piece of metal plumbing in the entire area, including homes...and they just aren't doing it. @@youtubeuniversity3638
More than flint. Most of michigan has horrible quality pipes, most really old. I keep aquariums and the water quality is really gross and most people don't drink it.
1:00 "I don't how they have the heart to do it"
I think Americans may have to start considering the scary possibility that the super-rich 1% are psychopaths or that their infinite greed has made them indifferent.
Bloodline RH negative
the Mojave aquifer is the second largest in the U.S.
The Ogallala is the largest.
During the 2008 foreclosure crisis, Blackrock purchased the 'asset' from San Bernardino. San Bernardino was bankrupt.
This was an illegal transfer of a public utility to a private entity.
Word
Sounds like blackrock. The creeping tendrils puppeteering the world from the shadows.
Greed is a mental illness and it's occurring across many different landscapes in the U.S.
Greed is OK for poor people. It becomes a mental illness once you become a billionaire but still want more.
Am I shocked? No. This is what we are becoming. The poor or middle class will always get screwed. Hence why the rich donate millions to our Congress people ( both sides)
there ain't not middle class anymore. there is the have and havenots
The US is a one party country, the American Capitalist Party. There's no one to look for the interests of anyone that's not a capitalist in government, and situations like the one in the video are the result.
@@glitchsister There has never been a middle class. It is a myth you were sold to not empathize with those that for one reason or another have lost everything. Turns out you're seeing a lot more of that kinda people nowadays, because the line between the average person and homelessness is two paychecks, and the chasm between the average person and Elon Musk is insurmountable and unthinkable.
There is the capitalist, that earns money off of the labor of others, and there's you, and I, the proletarians, who work to keep those vampires alive, and if we're lucky, to keep ourselves and our families alive too.
With "dont tread on me" flags all over the place. These folks voted for this... ignorance does not mean you do not reap what you sow.
@@glitchsister - true. Whether D or R, we are nothing to the elites.
This is happening in Montana. This is one of the reasons we just had to sell our farm, because the wells were going dry and we lived across the road from the people who had the water rights. I had to learn to dry land farm but it was just getting too expensive and hard to continue on my small waterless farm. We miss the people and the mountains though.
This has happened nationally. Water once flowed freely then some very rich people decided to purchase & control water 💧they covered the free flowing water & began selling it. Now they believe they own the water & don't want to share it any more. What a horrible nightmare.
check this. an Indian rez borders the Colorado river, I thinkk Navajo, and our Federal Gov has continually denied these first people's a right to tap into the river for drinking water.. They have been living off 5 gallon jugs of water since the reservation was created. When you look around the world and see injustice, here's the question you can ask yourself: Am I next? Is my family next? If they can retain suspicious persons in a cage on a base in Cuba for decades without due process, and draft new laws to do so, as scary as it is, or as scary as THEY have made it, aren't you and I the next 'terrorists' for speaking out against THEM?
First they came for the communists but I said nothing....
Then, they came for me...
@@katiedid1851and there was noone left to speak
What happened?@@katiedid1851
Possibly so be ready then.
Are you going to stand for Truth when they come or are you going to be conquered in every aspect of your life by Government agendas and their handlers?
It’s a government get a grip!
An overreaching agency.
Tell them to get out of your daily life.
This is not the purpose of governments.
What else are you going to do, bend over?
Let’s be clear, if you allow it then you are in deep due to your belief that your safe. Do you think this will not effect your family and friends also?
This is happening worldwide.
If your not strong enough go and find people who can guide you.
They only do it because they can.
That’s exactly what’s happening.
Our ancestors didn’t fight for governments to screw us over and over.
Hide and die or
Rise with Truth.
If your hiding then at least admit it then your not lying to yourself and others you possibly might put in harms way because if your beliefs.
No one’s safe here.
Have faith in yourself that you can enact change even from the smallest change and live your life like we were all meant too.
In Peace and Prosperity.
Support from Australia 🇦🇺
The corporations need to pay and recompensate residents...refill their wells that they ran dry!!!!
Hire expensive lawyer and go to court.
the water would just flow away, you can't refill wells when there isn't enough ground water in the ground
@@Desimere Really big farm, must be realllly expensive to adequately secure it. Maaaybe, they don't hire enough security. Maaaaybe, it isn't that secure.
@@JohnSmith-ft4gc *hint, hint, wink wink* :D
And who will help them do that?
Another issue is these waterbottling plants. They come into communities. Pay almost nothing to pump out and bottle the groundwater. Leaving the local commmunities high and dry.
This is a theme we are seeing all across the USA, big corporations, sucking up resources, average people suffering and struggling just to get by
Excellent video. I hope a million people see this and make enough noise that this version of America is ended.
It’s only beginning. America still has a lot of resources for pocketing.
Good luck. Everyone can be aware and it still won't matter. Our corrupt government is destroying our beautiful country. Greed and power is overpowering morals and values. We need a government overhaul. Out with the old, in with the new. The government is NOT our friend.
At a minimum VOTE!
Doesn't alfalfa use a ridiculous amount of water on its own?
Yup: "According to an analysis by the conservation non-profit Pacific Institute, alfalfa production in California uses around 5 feet an acre (6167.4 cubic metres) of water, making it one of the most water-intensive crops alongside the likes of almonds, pistachios and rice.Sep 12, 2022"
Why grow that in a desert? Because the land is cheap.
Where is the alfalfa going? Probably to Saudi Arabia.
Yes. The Saudis ship Arizona alfalfa to Saudi Arabia. They need to feed their horses.
No, it doesn't. That's a myth that's being spread by the real estate industry, to cover up the amount of water that's being used and drained for real estate development. Alfalfa is a desert plant that evolved in high desert climates out in Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan.
They tell you in the video that it's going to the cattle industry. So most likely the Midwest or Brazil, where we get the majority of our beef.
They said in the video, some of it was owned by a Saudi Prince. The rest by big corporations. Enough said.
That's exactly where it's going, to water heavy to grow there so they pay Cali farmers to grow here. Cause that makes sense. Our goverment is corrupt and defunct.
I guarantee that most of these people, if youd asked them over the years, about having regulations on companies abilities to extract, make money, etc, would give you some form of "big government bad, freedom good".
You get what you vote for.
There's class warfare on both sides. Voting for so and so will never fix a problem this big.
Same here in western Nebraska. Because of the farm circles. Since 1979. As a kid. I have been watching the land drop. The water is getting so bad. Right now. I have to replace three faucets. The water went from soft water to very hard water as the water table drops. Where ever water sits. Hard water deposits form. Almost nothing cleans them up. Now. Since 2020. More people moved in. The old town got cleaned up. New businesses. All I want to do is leave. No water. No life. If I went to the home where I grew up. 20 miles from here. Across the street. There is a hill that once stood. Higher than the light pole on the other side. Now. Today. You can see the roof of that house. That's how far the ground sunk because of the mass quality of water taken out of the ground by the circle farming. It's bad all over.
We need to rework every system and start over. Starting with the core essential needs to human life.
Water, Food, Shelter, Education & Healthcare.
Rework and Reset it all.
Slow down there bud. That's communism talk. Everything is just fine as is. It's all fine. Trust me. Nothing wrong. At all.
"Yeah but that's socialism, ew!" -Most Americans
Basic human needs (including community) = human rights.
Unfortunately it's not so simple... there is an ideology at work that goes beyond money or ethnicity. A lot of the voters there voted for this because they believe in a caste based society. The wealthy oligarchs at the top is considered to be the natural order of things.
@@HansMuneEnBy I would say some extremists would go as far as voting for a caste-based society as long as they are on top or at least above the people they dislike or hate. A lot of them don't really want a caste-based society, they're fooled into believing that they're voting for the choice of social mobility. Some want something close to a caste system which is essentially "social mobility for me and mine, but not for thee and thine which is fairly extreme. But there are ways to create positive change.
Politicans will never put people over profit.
The Resolution Copper Mine project near Superior, Arizona , which is owned by 2 foreign mining companies Rio Tinto (England, 15% China) and BHP (Australia) will be using 250 billion gallons of Arizona water for their mine project, for foreign profits. The mine will destroy 2 crucial water aquifers that supply water to Superior and the booming east valley area (San Tan -Queen Creek-Apache Jct.) The 1872 Mining Law gives this mine unlimited supply of our state's groundwater with no regulation.
Right? A nickles worth on ink on a dollars worth of paper in the form of a "law" and companies can make billions.
Lack of empathy seems to be at the core of many of these problems.
Empathy doesn’t make money.
Capital doing what it does best. The pressure cooker is unattended on top of the flame. How long until it explodes and the lid embeds onto the ceiling? We have been seeing more and more of that all over the globe in the 21st century.
I would imagine a lot of folks like AZ for its Wild West water laws, but this is why regulations are good. They ensure that people in inferior positions don’t always lose to the greedy wealthy who can never satisfy their needs with everyone’s resources.
It absolutely makes me sick that our government allows big corporations to do what they're doing to our country. Something has to give somebody has to stop them but who how? I'm so angry I'm so disgusted.
This is the water equivalent of the 1900 "Dust Bowl" Drastically changing or taxing the land and resources until the problems are so drastic an apocalyptic dust storm rolls into D.C.
Minnesota has 10,000 lakes but comes to Arizona to steal their water.
frame it like: _rich people_ are taking advantage of ppl who have very little, and are without recourse. idk where the "MN did this" talking point came from
frame it like: _rich people_ are taking advantage of ppl who have very little, and are without recourse. idk where the "MN did this" talking point came from
Minnesota has more water regulations. Ofc corporations will flock to less regulated areas. Minnesota also has a water shortage problem.
I'm in beautiful MN. El Nina has shorted us on moisture this year but that's to be expected. Anyway I was kind of joking.@@TheAubreePWI
@@mckymcobvious3043 I agree with you wholeheartedly. My comment was flippant.
Mr. Curry, the economy is "taking care of it". The economy you have always supported is doing exactly what it has always been meant to do.
That's what he said. He said that he used to think the economy would take care of it, and has learned he was wrong
@@FinneasJedidiah That's not what I heard. I heard him say he hopes that things will get better in the future.
Not a single hint that he identifies the problem as the system in place now or that for things to get better the system must be discarded.
Only that hopefully it will get better.
@@dinnerwithfranklin2451he said, “I used to be dumber than rocks, Katie. I used to think the economy could take care of it all.”
This implies he is aware that the system is wrong. This also implies he has changed his view and believes his old view of the economy was wrong.
@@blackberryjam6781 Read into it what you would like. I didn't see any evidence he learned anything other than the system would be fine if only it wasn't effecting me.
Sounds like you’re the one who is reading into things. The man said he made a mistake in his thinking. I know Ed personally and he has indeed changed his mind, and that’s why he’s working on groundwater regulation proposals. The guy has an important trait: intellectual humility. I hope you’ll cultivate that trait as well.
900 MILLION gallons per year, how can anyone live around that blackhole??? what is this massive greed and how is it allowed to rampant like that?
The city of Tucson is relocalizing water. Think this channel could feature steps that people take to restore personal power. I think harvesting rainwater is step one.
Step two is to encourage biome-appropriate plants and soil building agricultural practices as well. This would mean going away from monocultures, synthetic chemical inputs, overgrazing/ bare earth/fallow that allow erosion and destroy soil biology, annuals, etc.
We as consumers need to embrace farming and ranching that uses polycultures, small frequent rainwater catchments, mob grazing with livestock, etc so that we are building resiliency instead of impoverishing our neighbors.
Someone with the wherewithal, please help this man to do the latter, if he is willing...
You mean going back to small family farms, not letting billion dollar corporations rape the land and resources!
We need a federal ban on alfalfa exports
What the Southwest needs is watershed democracy. The management of water by the people that need it instead of the companies that exploit it. If you're reading this, look into watershed democracy if you haven't already. That's how resources should be controlled. Mutual ownership and decision-making.
I live in the SW (not in AZ, thankfully) in Albuquerque. Our government is no where near as bad as AZ’s, but we still have too many golf courses and water wasted on the rich. So I am going to be looking into this, thanks for sharing.
Trying to grow crops in the desert. Imagine needing water. We grow rice in CA. 90% desert and most water intensive crop. It's called being nuts thinking it would last.
I am so disgusted with these situations in all western countries. We, the ordinary people whose efforts built our societies, are being screwed over as our elected and often unelected officials let the rich do whatever the hell they want.
This is happening all over the world.😢 It’s sad for those people who live 😢many generation in this area to put up with these big companies with deep pockets. These big companies will leave it’s guaranteed. But only after all the water is gone.😢🤬 by this time those local people will have moved somewhere else.😢
The Lorax is a good parallel.
No it isn't 😂 your country's greed and capitalism over eveything is killing your country
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs people who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
It's a uni-party. You have no choice
This isn’t how you built solidarity. Those that are late to the party are still welcome. Shaming and I told you so’s leave us divided and still be run over by the rich.
This is the most perfectly written comment I've read on any site in at least the last ten days :) Too bad it doesn't fit on a bumper sticker!
Absolutely agree.
Excuse can’t remember the movie but in it the family fortune is being stolen by taking it and the victim is on his knees begging for the criminal to give it back.
That’s exactly our global community.
Heaven help “ them “ when we stand as one.
Do you know why powers that be allow protestors to do their thing because they are connected to organised purposeful individuals who retaliate violently.
@@na976I'd be less inclined to mock them with "told you so" if they hadn't been told so for over 50 years (before I'd been born!) and when asked say they'd do it all again nothing different.
"I can't believe the leopards ate my face!"
"Maybe vote for not-leopards next time?"
"No! They align with my values, I'm still voting for leopards, it's those libtards that are the problem."
"That's what evil counts on, that good people can't imagine it"
Water flows uphill toward money.
There are still places in the West/Southwest that have swale systems that the government made after the dust bowl. They just experimented with them. They're pretty cool and green, still. They should do stuff like that again.
swale.
Permaculture ❤
That’s the problem They are heartless
They are men who were indoctrinated from a young age that this is a dog-eat-dog world. This shapes their whole existence... they compete with each other so aggressively. This maintains the status quo.
Control the food supply !
Control the people !
Who wants to Control the food supply ?
The Government !
Water management is a very contentious issue here in Australia too for obvious reasons.
These are the policies and the people they vote for
Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes and plenty of water, and ranks 6th nationally in water-intensive alfalfa production goes takes it operation to Arizona ... that should be exposed. Thank you for bringing attention to this.
Minnesota has stricter water regulation’s, Arizona doesn’t. You should vote to change that.
@@Fuglychick I don't live in either state so I can't vote to change this. That's why I said this should be given more attention.
@@er... it’s not just in these 2 states. I’m sure it’s happening somewhere in your state.
@@Fuglychick Yeah, probably. All the more reason this needs attention. Maybe someone somewhere in my state will bring it to our attention after seeing what's going on elsewhere.
@@er... I live in Wisconsin. Here we have the Great Lakes Compact. It prohibits water being drawn from the lakes for use in other parts of the country or world. To get permission to draw water, they would have to get the approval of eight states into Canadian provinces. City of Waukesha Wisconsin tried to draw water from the lake and was prohibited. They aren’t even that far from Lake Michigan
Pretty much what corporations do in West, South, and East Africa when extracting minerals. THE CORPORATION NEEDS MORE MINERALS!
People would be surprised at how many beverage companies have plants in places like Arizona and southern california. As a trucker i can't count the times over the past 18 years of driving that i have picked up loads of soda, bottled water, and sports drinks out of Arizona. Absolutely crazy!
Right? I remember a few years back, people were talking about how bad the drought was in California. Meanwhile, our local grocery store had a summer long sale on bottled water that was "proudly bottled in California"
my idea for a story. call out and shame all those who profit from the misery of their fellow countrymen/women. all the trashcans who get rich off us. name and shame.
...gonna need to be a little more specific.
Which Riverview? And there shouldn't be water intensive farming in AZ. That's just stupid. BTW most of that Alfalfa, is shipped over seas. So basically they are selling U.S. water to other countries. Local control won't work. Local admins will just get bought out. Seen it over and over again.
Sounds like they're literally draining the water table!
when do people realize there is no such thing as a transaction with 2 winners. and the richer one will always make the better deal
Hello! Ed curry is my boss and he is such a good man to work for and such a good advocate for water rights, I do aerial photography for the farm, water is such an important thing for our entire community and thank you so much for making this video to show people what it's truly like to live here.
This is the plot of Rango
I live in SWFL where water is 'plentiful' but.... in the city I live in, which has designated their borders far out into about 45 miles to include a lot of swamp and agriculture where there are practically no homes, they are 'requiring' that everyone eventually connect to the city water/sewer system. And you have NO choice. Right now it's 35k to connect. You are charged on your tax bill if you cannot cough it up when they decide it's time. Currently it's at 10 years and you are charged high interest. They are saying that it will just keep going up every year. No they are not immediately connected.. The construction come long after the homes have been built up on the street, with their own septic tanks, wells, filtrations systems. AFTER all the homes are built, they start tearing up the roads to install the lines..... and each homeowner has to PAY to connect, and also has to have their septic tank crushed per city ordinance. This is in ADDITION to that 35k or whatever the city decides to charge. What are they doing with all that money? Building new water treatment plant?? NOPE. They are giving themselves big raises and 'stipends'. No input from the taxpayers... A lot of people move here and say it's cheap, so they don't protest it.. but the long time locals cannot afford this crap.
In November 2022, the people in Cochise Co (where Pearce is) had the opportunity to go vote for AMA groundwater legislation, that would have started to help this situation, by putting some restrictions on how much ground water can be pumped. The voters in southern part of Cochise Co voted yes on the AMA for the Douglas water basin. The voters on the Willcox water basin (which is where the obscenity of a dairy farm is & Pearce) voted no.
So, did everyone in the Pearce (and other Willcox water basin area residents) vote "yes" for the AMA? I bet not....
Why can the government close that farm down until the other residents receive all necessary water needed
Theres needs to be strict wTer limits,no ifs or buts, no money loophole.
These aquifers are actually quite large but are only refilled every 24000 years or so during a wet cycle cause by a wabble in the earths spin. Allot of these aquifers are like underground lakes with porous subsurface layers blocked off by underground geological dams. However these underground lakes are not being refilled hence can be pump out in a relatively short period of time not to be able to recharge for thousands of years.
You're referring to a magnetic pole shift. They happen every 6k years with major shifts every 12k years. We're in the process of a 12k magnetic pole shift.
I’ve noticed that for at least the last 5 years, more and more I’m seeing men and women in their 70’s, 80’s and even 90’s either really angry or sad, fighting back tears. The angry express their vitriol against a political party, believing if their party was in control, our country would be what it used to be like when they were young. The sad, quietly express how things have changed and not for the better. What they both have common is the belief that it’s our politicians who are responsible for all that ails us. Failing to see or admit it’s the capitalist system doing exactly what it is meant to do. The older guy knows it too, and still not a word.
Because their ideology is failing... they refuse to accept that they nor their descendants will ever be the bourgeoise. And they refuse to turn on their masters because then they'd have to work with people who want to dismantle corruption. You know the Natives, Blacks, Women, Asians, LGBT+ etc... the people who they are repulsed by.
I wish the spirit of Ed Abbey was around
I do have some minor sympathy for them. I'm just old enough to remember growing up without the internet - the late 80s and 90s - so I can recall *not* having the ability to fact check every claim made by potentially dubious sources with more credible ones. If some idiot said something on TV, or the newspaper, or the magazine, you had very few options to know whether it was true or not, unless you were part of a community directly and immediately impacted.
But that's where my sympathies end. It should be obvious that actors are not economic experts and probably shouldn't be making economic policy. By your 30s most folks have figured out (if they didn't already know) that companies lie to you and do not and never have your best interests in mind, so anything they're saying is "good for the economy" is really "good for our bottom line and bad for you." It should be obvious that letting a private business (despite its name the Fed is *not* beholden to the federal government in any way) control your money supply is a bad idea. That letting resources be squandered without knowing when or *if* they can even be replenished will lead to disaster. That pretending religious institutions will not try their damnest to become government institutions when given even a sliver of a chance to do so. All these things have precedent. They're not *new.* Even the most whitewashed textbooks contain it, a casual reading of national geographics or world news would show it.
They had opportunities to know and do better. And didn't follow up on any of them.
You can't even say, how on earth would voting-either party- help anything? There's only one party and we see it in action every day.
I live in the valley shown in this video and know about half of the people they profiled, I’ve been working on this water issue for a couple years now. The partisan system is certainly broken, and this video likely wouldn’t exist if local citizens hadn’t done serious activism in 2022 to get groundwater regulations passed in the Douglas basin, on the southern border of the Willcox basin featured in this video, via citizen petition. But there are some important partisan considerations, especially as you get more localized. In AZ we wouldn’t have had the formation of a water policy council, nor the de-permitting of some of the Saudi farms, if not for the Dem governor and Attorney General. The Republicans are generally aligned with corporate agriculture as one of their special interests in this state. They’re currently trying to pass a bill which requires a court to award legal fees to agricultural operation if they are sued for their water use causing a public nuisance. Blatantly unconstitutional. I know some people who are speaking up against that. The Governor will likely veto it, and then Republicans will demonize her as being veto-crazy. The Dems do dumb stuff too, but when it comes to water, the Republicans have been bought and sold. I voted for the first time in 2022 and I’m glad I did. It made a difference. But I will continue to remain unaffiliated with either party and only vote with my conscience and common sense.
They told them before they sold the land to the rich companies that the water will dry up everywhere for alfalfa is grown. Feels like a south park episode of integra farm's.
Libertarianism at its logical extreme. You only have as much of anything, including human rights, as you can afford. Full stop!
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I drove through Arizona last winter. Acres and acres of cattle. Fenced in tight. It's totally insane!
I know exactly what they are going through, I live in Indiana and don't have running water and the country or state is willing to help because of how much I make a year, they said that I can afford it.
Growing hay in the desert is insane!
The problem is also simply corporate farming. Until we have strict limitations on the conduct and the size of large-scale corporate held farming tracts were still going to have this problem. There should be a relatively low upper limit for how many acres a single corporation or umbrella corporation can hold.
I understand you angst, but what you're proposing is illegal
@@weirdshibainu ???? Are you aware how societies and governments work??
@@weirdshibainu if you don't think that large corporations deserve the iron fist, I don't think you've been paying attention.
@@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago Yes I do. Do you? You can't arbitrarily decide how much property a company can own like it or not.
@@WindowsXP_logon_sound_25yrsago And who is that "iron fist" going to be? Apparently you haven't been paying attention.
Thanks for highlighting this issue!
Our city of Douglas about 50 miles south of Peace is loaning a dairy company $15M to startup a dairy. This is a huge concern for our small town. We need to stop them!
Well let’s all go into farming in the DESERT!!!!
Hey Arizona, don't worry about it. Unregulated free market capitalism will take care of everything. Just keep voting for "small government", no regulation, republicans.
I liked your comments but don’t act like Dems haven’t contributed to free market capitalism in the past 40 years. NAFTA, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, TANF, TPP, etc. Biden voted for both TANF and NAFTA, and of course was vice president when they were trying to do the TPP. All of these are neoliberal (aka free market capitalist) policies - austerity, deregulation, “free” trade.
Because socialism will fix it better.
Won't hurt it worse.
Nailed it
Do more research. Who owned these corporation?
I live in Nevada and our state and California depend on the Sierra Nevada's for water. A few years back, when the snow levels were low and everyone was screaming "drought" I had the opportunity to talk to a retired Senior Water Manager from California. I asked him why California doesn't manage their water better (i.e. more reservoirs, growing drought tolerant crops, etc) He said California has a lot of water-for the right people. He went into detail about how the system was structured. But he said " Just remember, at the end of the day, water flows uphill to where the money is."
Absolutely sickening
"They're allowing people with the most money to do whatever they want"
And to the conservative-capitalist politically ignorant mindset I grew up with, that sounded totally normal. But I also know that she was saying, "the richest people are allowed to be villains with impunity".
Is it crazy to say there ought to be an apathy tax? A tax on people who just won't do anything about the suffering of the people around them despite being very financially able to? You can't just say "tax the rich" because cons desperately want to believe that the rich earned their riches, but calling it an apathy tax ought to shine some light on what exactly is being taxed.
Growing water dependent crops in counties that are essentially deserts.
Don't these guys vote for free market capitalism?, why avail a policy that requires government intervention?
They also allowed housing developers to build beyond the availability of water in Arizona & other States that rely on the Colorado river. Even California had throttled back on expansion years ago in relation to water availability. Its harder to get a house built yourself, unless you demolish an old place that already has a water line. San Luis County in California is not currently approving builds that aren’t either old developments or the few remaining lots in the middle of town. We got city water permission in Arroyo Grande 7 years ago & kept renewing it until we had the ability to put two small manufactured homes on our lot & almost had to fight them to get the water run to the property because the county isn’t giving permission for new lines in our area anymore. We still got it because of the old written agreement which they don’t do anymore. Denial of water rights is part of what has driven property values sky high on the coast. Or, destroyed your property value if they won’t let you run water to it or build a well. There are small properties worth nearly a million dollars in my area, just because of water access + a house. Those aren’t even the beach house mansions. And multiple acres of land in the same county worth only $14,000 because the county won’t approve them to either run a line or dig a well. Some guy beat the hell out of my door at 7 pm last night to demand I sign a petition to get the water bill lowered. I told him I was moving out and refused to sign, but I actually refused because I had fallen asleep and he had rudely awakened me. I thought there was an emergency & its the cops or fire department, but it was some guy waking me from a deep restful sleep, nearly giving me a heart attack, hammering my door in like a swat team because he doesn’t like paying bills. Yes the water bill is high. They are probably using the money to update the system to better conserve water like Nipomo did. Or to build a desalination plant that we badly need. Republicans don’t want to pay for anything, but they move out here from Bakersfield after having made their money from the oil industry, farming industry, or owning a shop there. Surprise, resources are in shorter supply & more costly on the coast. We have less access to water unless we convert sea water to fresh.
Cambria stopped issuing water rights long before my area. Last time I checked there were properties in Cambria priced in the hundreds of dollars, because they cannot get water rights. Its getting close to 20 years that they have banned development this way. I have sometimes entertained the thought of buying one of these unsellable properties anyway as sort of a bet that desalination of sea water is going to expand enough to break the moratorium on water access. And suddenly I’d have a valuable property worth hundreds of thousands, right next to the village. But there’s also a chance that may never happen.
This just made me weep. My heart is broken.
Lol this is capitalist efficiency at work.
The free market found a resource available on the cheap(cause the dorks who actually live there need it to live) with no *spooky* government regulations. So Capitalist firms will run that land to dry as possible, if it means a 3% return this quarter.
Sad but True.
😢 like Bruh… we need 👻!
This issue is decades old. America s need to get involved.
Capitolism will swallow us all.
We deserve it
It's not capitalism. It's corruption and a lack of morals.
I believe the majority if not all of it is grown and shipped to Saudi Arabia through shell companies here in the US.
This was so incredibly informative, thank you for this.
This is a desert. It is a problem using so much water for farming and also for so many people living there. Not many people should be living in a desert.
As much as I like your videos, I have seen a couple now in rural areas where you just refuse to talk about how voting plays a role in their situation. Who do people in rural Arizona vote for? Is it the party that doesn't believe in government safety nets, at all and completely wants to deregulate all business?
Of course it is.
Arizona resident here. Sadly, they vote against their best interests.
Corporate money buys party primary winners on both the Democratic and Republican side. Even Democrats in Arizona support things like the chip plants and data centers in Phoenix which will require millions of gallons of water to operate.
It makes me think about the reason the rural areas were left out of the law that was mentioned. If it was passed today, one might assume it was because of lobbying by big business. However, I wonder if at the time, it was because of a desire by locals for small government and less regulation.
@@FGM013 BS. It's a uni-party, you do not have a choice
Why hasn’t the federal government acted to prevent this from happening.
Regulations. Americans don't like regulations.
That old man choking up😢 His words dig deep and I hope someone with deep pockets and still has a heart does something. They need to make sure that Bill gets a lot of publicity along with this video!
And yet so many of them, vote Republican, and have more and more of the rights personal rights taken away
Good news is that even some Republicans are waking up and slowly realizing that all this nonsense is the result of deregulation and tax cuts for rich people.
Deregulation is just another word for decriminalization. It's interesting that they call legalization of street drugs decriminalization but they call legalization of financial crimes deregulation. The power of euphemisms.
Better dry than gay.
Democrat is worse bruh
@@user-dc9oq2pr6v only if they are a corporate Democrat or neoliberal.
Voting at all, no matter for who, feeds the illusion. They all serve the same masters. They're all enemies.
This is a feature of capitalism btw
Riverview is hated in MN as well, come look at land in Northfield that is adjacent to a Riverview operation. There is no way that they aren't causing land drought on purpose with their water usage.
More Perfect Union is doing us such a great service
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Thankful for all their hard work spreading awareness and championing the little guy 👏