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Yep. All other discussions are fiddling around the edges while you still have farmers casually spraying water in the hot air as it is cheaper than pipes.
by MattGaiser 4y ago
Yep. All other discussions are fiddling around the edges while you still have farmers casually spraying water in the hot air as it is cheaper than pipes.
- freeopinion 4y agoThen raise the price of water. I don't get a Nobel Prize for this. It really just earns me a Captain Obvious sticker. In the short term, your food will be more expensive. In the long term, people will invest in water-reduced production. Want to see fintech and crypto currency startups at YC get replaced by VF (vertical farming) startups claiming to reduce water use by 80%? Just raise the price of water by 1¢/liter. VFVC (vertical farming venture capital) will be all the rage.
- rootusrootus 4y agoYou're assuming farmers are paying for water the same way residential consumers do. "Just raise the price of water" doesn't work without first reforming a lot of law.
- ausbah 4y agoI think the recent bouts of inflation show that people don't take large price hikes kindly
- JaimeThompson 4y agoIn a country where major companies get governments to fund their factories while they spend billions on stock buybacks that is unlikely to be allowed to happen.
- ericmay 4y agoWell that's it. Pack it up. There's no solution as long as government can be bought by companies.