Kyrie Irving says Bill Gates, which has most of the land and water in the US, initially appeared on the Fadeaway World.
In the recent Twitch stream, NBA star Kyrie Irving once again raised her eyebrows, not for a dazzling dribbling step, but because of a controversial action: Bill Gates has most of the land and aquatic in the US.
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“I still think it is strange that, you know, the Gates family or Bill Gates have a lot of land in the North Dakota. I think it’s weird. He owns most of the water in the US. I think it’s strange.”
Kyrie’s comments on the Internet caused a direct reaction. Although he is not alien to alternative prospects, the previously questioned form of land, this statement becomes a combination of land ownership data, corporate farming problems and long -term anxiety of American billionaire control of natural resources. But is there the truth that he said?
Let’s divide.
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Bill Gates is indeed the largest private owner of agricultural land in the US. According to The Land Report, since 2021 The Gates owned about 270,000 ares of agricultural land, which spread more than a dozen states, including large parcels in Louisian, Arkansas, Nebraska and Washington. This land is primarily used for agricultural purposes such as potatoes, carrots, soybeans and corn.
However, this figure is only 0.03% of 895 million acres of all American agricultural land under USDA. And it is only agricultural land, not the total land area, which is about 2.3 billion ha in the US gate holds, makes it a noticeable figure, but the idea that it has a “majority” from the US land is objectively false.
This part of the statement of Kyrie has even fewer merits. The gate “has” most of the water in the US. In fact, no one does it. Water rights in the US are governed by state and federal laws that are highly dependent on geography.
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For example, coastal rights are valid in the Eastern US, giving land owners the right to use water from adjacent sources. The Arid Western USA is prevalent: the first person to use water for the useful purpose gives the legal right to continue to use it, regardless of land ownership.
Water is also regulated by the doctrine of public trust in many states, which means that the government trusts people. Municipal utility services, irrigation areas and federal agencies, such as land reclamation office, control large reservoirs and delivery systems rather than private billionaire.
Gates made philanthropic investments in water sanitation, especially in developing countries, but are far from having US water rights.
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Kyrie frames grabbed the growing public distrust of billionaires buying large areas of land, especially when providing food and climate change becomes important concerns. Forbes said Gates’s huge assets estimated at $ 128 billion from 2025. However, equivalent to property to the country’s natural resources is too far.
Although there is nothing wrong with interviewing power, the facts are simply unfounded in Kyrie’s statement. Bill Gates does not have most US land or water, only a small but noticeable piece of cultivated land. The water system in the US is a decentralized, highly adjustable area that no person or entity can “have” “in any meaningful way.
In this case, Kyrie could be a little too far from the truth.
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Initially, the Fadeaway World reported this story in 2025. July 28, where she first appeared.