Back in 23, governor Katie Hobbs announced a deal with a Saudi farming company to grab nearly unlimited ground water to raise alfalfa for horses would NOT be renewed. The former idiot governor was known for making really bad deals.

https://apnews.com/article/saudi-arabia-drought-arizona-alfalfa-water-agriculture-0d13957edaf882690e15c0bd9ccfa59f]

Let me tell you, folks who live in the area are dealing with ground water loss and dry wells because the water table has dropped so much. Most can't afford the steep price for digging deeper to keep water coming into their homes, and they can't sell and move because there is no water coming into their homes. Sink holes due to the lower water table are causing problems with rural roads. But those ponies in Arabia love Arizona alfalfa. Hay here is getting too expensive for the locals to afford.

It's good to have a governor who is teaching us ways to fight corporations that want to suck AZ dry while not actually coming thru with the 'good paying jobs' they promise. Seems corporations like to include the pay to top level management they bring into AZ from other states when they proclaim how helpful they will be to the local work force.

Rio Verde Foothills just went through over a year of hell in not knowing if they would have water or not. Some homes have wells that are good while others a short distance away are drying up. People have paid thousands of dollars to have wells dug only to wind up with mud. They don't get the money back. Many have hauled water but Scottsdale decided they would not be able to get the water from them any longer. The literal tap was turned off leaving many residents in a very bad predicament. Water is literally life. Without water and no way to even have it hauled their homes would be worthless. Finally after a lot of legal hurdles they temporarily got the water turned back on and infrastructure on an EPCOR standpipe is in the works but they have a Dec 31 deadline and people are worried that deadline might not be met.