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Of all the places to use market forces, this one is it. Users of the water should bid. The price will round to zero for consumers, but ag will have to make deci

• rektide 4y ago
  There are very very strong advocates who insist that huge colossal vast grants of water rights made a century ago cannot ever be redresses except by buying these natural holders out. Personally I find this abominable & maximally distateful. Governments like all institutions make mistakes. In my view, correctuon must be possible, and not just by paying absurd prices to cancel promises that mever could be kept. The idea that law is only valid if it never changes, always follows theough on every promise without change, seems deeply deeply fallen to me. I hate that it's come to this but these water rights holders literally cant get the vast vast vast entitlements they've held any more. There's a lot of important critical agriculture that needs some access, perhaps as you say at some market rate. These old entitlements though? They've bankrupted the water system. Awful situation which it took hitting a literal rock bottom to disrupt. Governments have been unable to respond in any way because of ancient decisions & now it's broke. Lets not prevent governance again, please.