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Yes, so charge agriculture and industry more.

• ehnto 7y ago
  I imagine the prices would just flow on to the consumer. I would personally prefer water usage regulation, that's something we can pretty easily do since we already meter it to charge for it. If you just raise the prices, there's no guarantee it would actually lower water usage enough to help.
  • nshepperd 7y ago
    If prices flow on to the consumer, that's good. It motivates consumers to buy less water hungry alternatives and industry to find less water hungry production methods. It certainly would lower water usage.
  • mywittyname 7y ago
    > If you just raise the prices, there's no guarantee it would actually lower water usage enough to help. Sure it will. If water costs these farmers $1,000,000/gallon, they would use 0% of what they do now, since nobody would buy a $4MM avocado. That's absurd, but it does demonstrate that there is a price for water that will lower its usage. The goal should be to price water such that enough is left downstream for personal consumption. Doing so will raise prices on agricultural goods, which will decrease demand, also lowering water consumption.