While that is true, thats a purly poitical problem. If their were a prober market solution that priced according to sound resource managment priniples it would

While that is true, thats a purly poitical problem. If their were a prober market solution that priced according to sound resource managment priniples it would not be a problem. The price of water woild still be very low and it would not impact standards of living in any siginificant way. Their are tons of easy ways to save water, pertocularly in farming but that will not happen. Its a classical tragety of the commens. They had to solve the same problem when tjey were moving west, frontier society had very soffisticated systems of water managment.