Creating a monetary incentive to judiciously use a scarce resource seems to be exactly the kind of problem a market solves. Or in the case of a command-economy,

Creating a monetary incentive to judiciously use a scarce resource seems to be exactly the kind of problem a market solves. Or in the case of a command-economy, perhaps the policies of the party running the state for the last decade should been more effective in addressing basic problems like "how do we feed ourselves?"