Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit against a Saudi Arabian-backed company on Tuesday, alleging that its “excessive groundwater pumping” violates state law.
Mayes filed this lawsuit against Fondomonte Arizona, LLC, in Maricopa County Superior Court.
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The Saudi Arabian-backed company Fondomonte Arizona is officially no longer using the state’s water resources.
According to the governor’s office, the State Land Department inspected the company’s land leases in western Arizona’s Butler Valley on Feb. 15, which determined that it was no longer irrigating. The company was estimated to have pumped over 5.3 billion gallons of groundwater in 2022, according to Arizona’s Family.
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