Irrigation in Saudi Arabia

Nonrenewable fossil water is mined from depths as great as 1 km (3,000 ft), pumped to the surface, and distributed via large center pivot irrigation feeds.

The circles of green irrigated vegetation may comprise a variety of agricultural commodities from alfalfa to wheat.

Desalination plants have been built to produce fresh water from the sea for urban and industrial use, thereby freeing other sources for agriculture.

Saudi Arabia is suffering from a major depletion of the water in its underground aquifers and a resultant break down and disintegration of its agriculture as a consequence.

[2][3] As a result of the catastrophe, Saudi Arabia has bought agricultural land in the United States,[4][5] Argentina,[6] and Africa.