At least in the case of Arizonan desert alfalfa, this is a result of sweetheart lease deals offered to Saudis with no limits on groundwater access, who are effectively exporting Arizona’s aquifers in the form of livestock feed.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-company-fondomonte-arizon...
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/202...
This is just saying that they had the right to drill MORE wells revoked, presumably they already have wells that will continue to pump water out of the ground.
>reported that the new wells would have pumped up to 3,000 gallons (11,000 liters) of water per minute.
That is an insane amount of water.
> At Lake Itasca, the average flow rate is 6 cubic feet per second. At Upper St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, the northern most Lock and Dam, the average flow rate is 12,000 cubic feet per second or 89,869 gallons per second. At New Orleans, the average flow rate is 600,000 cubic feet per second.