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I had been saying for years that proper market pricing for water should solve this. However, it was called out in a previous discussion of this topic that farme
by ajmurmann 4y ago
I had been saying for years that proper market pricing for water should solve this. However, it was called out in a previous discussion of this topic that farmers don't get their water out of a faucet. They typically will get it out of wells or rivers that run through their properties. Addressing this would apparently require reworking water rights that have been in place for a long time.
- 8note 4y agoAn alternative would be to buy up or eminent domain the land around those rivers
- ajmurmann 4y agoAssuming we could solve the issues around wells (that now are frequently are deep enough to tap into the aquifer) that solution would also likely cause massive and probably violent resistance. Now one might argue that the situation will inevitably cause massive change and cause a lot of pain. The political will to do anything active that causes such uproar is totally missing though. I think an apt comparison is a version of the trolly problem where you do nothing and kill 5 people or you move the lever, kill only 1 person, but also open yourself up to massive hatred and potentially a civil-war-like situation because you took an active measure.