A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona's McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock's family has used groundwater to grow forage crops here for more than six decades.
WENDEN, Ariz. (AP) A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot des
Concerns about future water supplies from the valley's ancient aquifers, which hold groundwater supplies, are bubbling up in Wenden, a town of around 700 people where the Hancock family farms.
In western Arizona's McMullen Valley, concerns are rising over the large-scale alfalfa farming by foreign agribusiness Al Dahra. Residents fear the depletion of ancient aquifers.