Saving Water in Arizona’s Farms

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3                                                                                                                                      PROGRAM #10533  12:00 PM PT 

Saving Water in Arizona’s Farms. 

Faced with a worsening drought, a climate crisis and diminishing resources from the Colorado River, Arizona is promoting federally-funded programs to make water use more efficient and support aquifer recharge. The programs are reducing surface water use in agriculture, but keeping farmland producing. What are the changes promoted in Arizona’s fields? Analysts also comment on the repercussions of the recent termination of a groundwater lease agreement for a foreign-owned company that operated a large, water-intensive alfalfa farming plantation.

Guests: Ylenia Aguilar, Member, Board of Directors, Central Arizona Project, Central Arizona Water Conservation District, Phoenix, AZ; Sylvia Lara Montenegro, Founding Member, Coachella Valley Housing Coalition, Former Board of Directors Member, Coachella Valley Unified School District, and Former Mayor and Councilmember, City of Coachella, Coachella, CA; Masavi Perea, Deputy Director, CHISPA Arizona, Phoenix, AZ.

Photo: Eduardo Barraza/Adobe Stock

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