AZL General Discussion, page-2293

Tread carefully, mbot. One more question about water and they’ll accuse you of being me. At all costs avoid the New Times article. And any references to sacred religious sites.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/wikieup-lithium-mine-big-sandy-hualapai-tribe-ranchers-water-hawkstone-11561652

Here’s a news item from last week about a company that is buying up farmland 200 miles away, to sell the water rights to a Phoenix suburb.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2021/11/25/investors-buying-up-arizona-farmland-valuable-water-rights/8655703002/

They paid US$21 million for 2,033 acre feet of water, or US$10,330 each. Do the math – an acre foot is 326,000 US gallons. According to AZL’s Doug Pitts, Big Sandy will require 130,000 gallons per ton of lithium produced -- an acre foot for every 2.5 tons. That comes out to $4,132 per ton, just for the water.

Let the attacks begin. . .