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Water rights are going to be a hot topic. There just isn't enough for everyone, and sharing a commons is not something that America (and other western societies
by mmastrac 4y ago
Water rights are going to be a hot topic. There just isn't enough for everyone, and sharing a commons is not something that America (and other western societies) has been good at.
- ok_dad 4y ago> There just isn't enough for everyone There's enough for everyone, but some large actors are taking most of the water and wasting it or exporting the productive value of that water due to a lack of real market forces on the price of water. You're absolutely correct there will be water rights issues, I would argue they will become wars in certain places and in others it will result in certain massive cities becoming dead over several decades.
- collegeburner 4y ago^^^ we have large parts of the country that effectively export water via ag. America has plenty of water, plenty of land, plenty of resources to maintain our current diet and way of life, it is exporting to the rest of the world that we can't do.
- hanniabu 4y agoConsidering it's the US we're talking about, water will be completely privatized.
- kortilla 4y agoThere’s plenty for everyone. We haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of cutbacks in the few regions where we’ve just started getting contentious. Saying otherwise makes you an intentional or unintentional mouthpiece for agriculture which dominates water usage and hardly pays anything for it.