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In many mountain towns (like the one I just relocated from), supply is more or less permanently fixed due to constraints on land and water. Often they are bord
by matheweis 9y ago
In many mountain towns (like the one I just relocated from), supply is more or less permanently fixed due to constraints on land and water.
Often they are bordered by Federally or state owned land, and have limited supplies of water due to the simple fact that they are on top of a mountain and there is only so much water in the natural aquifers.
Building taller buildings and using water more efficiently will only get you so far...
- heylook 9y agoYour point is valid, but I think it doesn't give enough credit to technological innovation and market forces. We've figured out how to do pretty amazing and ridiculous things with the right incentives in place in the past, and I'm not sure what about this problem would classify it as impossible. To phrase it more glibly: "Necessity is the mother of invention."
- matheweis 9y agoYou're right of course; my "more or less" qualifier didn't quite get that point across, did it? :-)