State Pension Fund Is Invested in Deal to Drain Arizona’s Dwindling Groundwater

The state’s investment into exporting its own water overseas comes as the region faces ongoing water shortages.

As rural Arizonans face the prospect of wells running dry, foreign firms are sucking up vast amounts of the state’s groundwater to grow hay for Saudi Arabia and other wealthy nations. Now it turns out that a key investor in this water transfer scheme is Arizona’s own employee retirement fund. In La Paz County, a rural community about 100 miles west of Phoenix, Al Dahra Farms USA has been running a...

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