"The documentary continues to detail how the Saudi government owns 15 miles squared in Arizona that produces fodder hay to feed dairy and beef cattle back in Saudi Arabia. This is a de facto export of water from the US to the middle east." Apparently they've never heard of the hydrological cycle. Water transported from one region to another, whether contained within food or not, will always return to the original region as precipitation. However there can be exhaustion of underground reservoirs of water tapped for agricultural, industrial and residential use. It doesn't matter if the end-use is local or distant, it's the over-utilization.
"The documentary continues to detail how the Saudi government owns 15 miles squared in Arizona that produces fodder hay to feed dairy and beef cattle back in Saudi Arabia. This is a de facto export of water from the US to the middle east." Apparently they've never heard of the hydrological cycle. Water transported from one region to another, whether contained within food or not, will always return to the original region as precipitation. However there can be exhaustion of underground reservoirs of water tapped for agricultural, industrial and residential use. It doesn't matter if the end-use is local or distant, it's the over-utilization.
Great write up.