Now all of these have dried up,” the head of the country’s Ministry of Water told The New York Times in 2003. The springs had bubbled up for thousands of years from a massive aquifer system that lay ...

The alfalfa was then exported to Saudi Arabia and used to ... that rely on the Colorado River and have been in talks for years on how to save it from drying up due to over-usage and drought.

Arizona’s cities and rural areas alike are at risk if they lose access to Colorado River water only to find their groundwater reserves sucked dry ... that Saudi Arabia set up in the wake ...