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Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Says There is Enough Water for New Housing Development

/in , /by /Kion 46by Dania Romero

The City of Monterey says they are worried there won’t be enough water by the time over 36 hundred housing units are expected to be developed across the city. The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District says thanks to the expansion of a project, there will be more than enough waterways before the housing is developed.

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Investors Are Buying Up Rural Arizona Farmland to Sell the Water to Urban Homebuilders

/in , , /by /AZ Centralby Ian James Geoff Hing

In fields on the Arizona-California border, farmers draw water from the nearby Colorado River to grow alfalfa, irrigating crops as they have for decades.

That could change soon. An investment company has purchased nearly 500 acres of farmland and wants to strip it of its water and send it 200 miles across the desert to a Phoenix suburb, where developers plan to build thousands of new houses.

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