Though the law allows for virtually unlimited pumping in rural Arizona, Attorney General Kris Mayes says Fondomonte violates public nuisance laws by overdrawing water, drying wells and subsiding land around the operation.
PHOENIX (CN) — As the Arizona Department of Water Resources works to regulate groundwater pumping in western Arizona, a megafarm responsible for more than 80% of all pumping in a 912-square-mile groundwater basin seeks to stay a public nuisance lawsuit in which it’s accused of excessive pumping.
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