Drinking water for residents of Wenden, Ariz., has started to dry up as megafarms owned and backed by sovereign nations use it to grow their crops instead.Groundwater is a necessity to grow agriculture in the Southwest, and while the River Basin is going through a prolonged drought, overused aquifers in Arizona are rapidly being exhausted, affecting the local lifestyle and economy.Residents of towns Wenden and Salome get their water from the same source as farms - underground pools - but declining water tables in the area show levels have dropped from about 100 feet in the 1950s to about 540 feet in 2022, according to .
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