Residents and farmers say contractors have tapped border aquifers that threaten water supply for those nearby
Construction crews building a border wall in New Mexico were ordered to stop drilling new wells after ranchers said that pumping groundwater to produce concrete could threaten their livestock amid a severe drought.
The order comes as crews across the southern border race to complete one of Donald Trump’s highest domestic priorities – barriers that span four states and received over $46bn in federal funding. Controversies have sprouted up in Texas and California, and border-town residents and environmentalists have reported a wide variety of issues with construction.
At a public meeting in July, ranchers said they were noticing unmonitored tapping of border aquifers that threatened the water for those nearby.
Forty six.
BILLION
I can’t even imagine that much money. People in this country and our neighbors are suffering and starving because a hundred is hard to come by.
When sanity is returned to the land, those responsible for this ought to be made to face this fking wall and left for the sun and the vultures, as a reminder of the consequences for entreating with the devil.