Water in the Southwest has never been charged "the proper cost to acquire." It's being pumped out faster than it can be replenished. Rivers are drained dry. P

Water in the Southwest has never been charged "the proper cost to acquire." It's being pumped out faster than it can be replenished. Rivers are drained dry. People have built for decades on the belief that water will never be its true cost. Now it's the end of that day. The "proper cost to acquire" isn't enough. Who pays the cost of repairing the damage done, like groundwater-related subsidence? Of restoring ecosystems?