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The water can be nationalized. But the government still needs to put a price on it to prevent overuse. If the price is higher than the operating costs of the wa
by Houshalter 10y ago
The water can be nationalized. But the government still needs to put a price on it to prevent overuse. If the price is higher than the operating costs of the water system, then they have profit they can redistribute to the people.
- RobertKerans 10y agoMetering water seems reasonable but there are upfront costs to more widespread adoption (financial + political/social) + a bureaucratic layer (with all the associated complexity/corruption issues) that would need to be implemented for metering plus nationalisation, so while I'm [quite possibly naïvely] personally in favour, it opens a very large can of worms.