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💰 Saudi Arabia’s Great Arizona Water Heist: Legal but Lethal

Three Sonorans
5 min readDec 30, 2024

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Based on the 12/16/24 Buckmaster show on KVOI-1030AM.

  • “If you own land and you can punch a well, you can pump all the water you want” — Dr. Jeff Silvertooth on rural water rights
  • “Facts may be facts, but perceptions become people’s reality” — Dr. Silvertooth on agricultural water use debates
  • “We broke some ground” — Kim Adair on getting NCAA approval for alcohol sponsorship
  • “We’re not a 501c3 non-profit ourselves. We’re doing this because we want to drive economic impact into southern Arizona” — Kim Adair on Arizona Bowl’s mission

🌍💧 Imagine if some neighborhoods had rules about using water from underground, but others didn’t have any rules at all! 😲 That’s what’s happening in Arizona right now. Some places are running out of water 💧🚫 because companies can pump as much as they want, while cities have strict rules about saving water 🚰📜.

At the same time, exciting things are happening with college football 🏈🎉 — a famous musician named Snoop Dogg 🎤🐶 is helping make a big game in Tucson that gives all its extra money 💵❤️ to help people in need. It’s like having two totally different stories happening at once: one about running out of water 🌊🏜️, and another about helping the community through sports! 🤝✨

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Three Sonorans
Three Sonorans

Written by Three Sonorans

Three Sonorans covers activist and progressive news for Tucson and Arizona. Ethnic Studies, SB1070, and the the epicenter of the new Civil Rights Movement.

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