GP suggests we use pricing to control water use. This means a new per-gallon cost. E.g. consider a farm drawing water from a well. Yes - they do pay to maintai

GP suggests we use pricing to control water use. This means a new per-gallon cost. E.g. consider a farm drawing water from a well. Yes - they do pay to maintain that well, but they don't have a pricing mechanism incentivising them to draw less water based on watershed-wide supply. To implement a pricing system to allocate water usage instead of water rights, we'd need to go and add a meter to that farm's well and then charge them a price that fluctuates depending on the supply-demand point of the watershed as a whole. that is a whole new charge, and the farm would end up paying more. I'm not saying this is bad. Someone is going to lose out from the supply constraint. I'm just trying to work out the politics of it.