Arizona farmers oppose water regulations as land sinks beneath them

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1. >“The AMA will not change groundwater overdraft,” resident and wine grower Chad Preston told six members of the Arizona Department of Water Resources facilitating the meeting. “It will only stifle growth.”

   Ah, the classic “line must go up at all costs” mentality that got us into this mess to begin with.

   >The overdraft and reduced water levels have resulted in sinking land and large cracks in the earth known as fissures. Wells have gone dry across the area, forcing homeowners and ranchers to spend tens of thousands digging new wells or deepening the ones they have. Infrastructure is paying the price.

   >“Due to uneven subsiding, my house has broken in half, and is now unsellable and unsafe,” Janet Randall told the crowd of nearly 350 gathered in the Willcox Community Center on Friday afternoon.

   So the suffering of their own community members is a price they’re perfectly willing to pay in the name of profit.

2. Idiots

3. The farmers are showing just how stupid they are. Once the land sinks it doesn’t come back, so it is either go with the water restrictions now or run out of water in the future. You are in for a world of hurt if you keep your head buried in the sand.

4. Ok yeah we’re exhausting fossil aquifers that can never be recharged, and causing insane subsidence, and cracking people’s homes in half, and making an arid region ever more arid, BUT: I can personal vouch that the pistachios they grow near Willcox are pretty good.

5. Capitalism operates on the next quarter, and farmers operate on the next year. Twenty years…

6. Welfare Queens aka ‘farmers’ cry about regulations to protect the rest of the state’s resources.

   Fucking disgusting.

7. these people would rather have the entire region dry up than reduce their present profits 1 iota. then when it dries up they will blame the government for not fixing it.

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