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Is there an appropriate price for a child's drinking water? 500/yr? 5000/yr? What if a company wants to use all our water to make really expensive luxury food a

Is there an appropriate price for a child's drinking water? 500/yr? 5000/yr? What if a company wants to use all our water to make really expensive luxury food and earn back everything it spends? Should we sell them all our water since they're the highest bidder?

vitiral 4y ago
Considering wars have been fought and blood spilled over it I'd say the answer is yes, but it's a price many would prefer not paying.
malyk 4y ago
Under 100 gallons a day (totally random choice), free-ish. Over 1 acre-foot per day, $100,000 (totally random choice).
- MichaelCollins 4y ago
  How do you accomplish that sort of pricing scheme with free markets? You need government regulated markets to accomplish this.
  - unethical_ban 4y ago
    I for one support this. Too many people in the thread are just saying a phrase like "Free markets" while making no point foolishly, followed by rhetorical questions. Allow me to be unambigious. If we agree that overconsumption of groundwater combined with under-replenishment of all frewshwater resources due to climate change implies a coming strategic shortage of water, then yes, absolutely, state and federal government should be severely scrutinizing where water is going and prohibit excess water consumption for luxuries and for exports. Another way to go about it would be what the person above you said: Create tiered pricing for water such that the reasonable monthly use of water is as close to free (minus upkeep of water infrastructure) as possible, while quickly ramping up marginal cost.
TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein, for some perspective. On the former Soviet Lunar prison turned colony, electricity, water, and air are,by necessity not free.
- kevingadd 4y ago
  Great book, but I feel like if we decide to run the US the way we would run a lunar prison colony, we're kind of admitting that we've ruined things for ourselves.

vitiral 4y ago

Considering wars have been fought and blood spilled over it I'd say the answer is yes, but it's a price many would prefer not paying.

malyk 4y ago

Under 100 gallons a day (totally random choice), free-ish. Over 1 acre-foot per day, $100,000 (totally random choice).

MichaelCollins 4y ago
How do you accomplish that sort of pricing scheme with free markets? You need government regulated markets to accomplish this.
- unethical_ban 4y ago
  I for one support this. Too many people in the thread are just saying a phrase like "Free markets" while making no point foolishly, followed by rhetorical questions. Allow me to be unambigious. If we agree that overconsumption of groundwater combined with under-replenishment of all frewshwater resources due to climate change implies a coming strategic shortage of water, then yes, absolutely, state and federal government should be severely scrutinizing where water is going and prohibit excess water consumption for luxuries and for exports. Another way to go about it would be what the person above you said: Create tiered pricing for water such that the reasonable monthly use of water is as close to free (minus upkeep of water infrastructure) as possible, while quickly ramping up marginal cost.

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago

Read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein, for some perspective. On the former Soviet Lunar prison turned colony, electricity, water, and air are,by necessity not free.

kevingadd 4y ago
Great book, but I feel like if we decide to run the US the way we would run a lunar prison colony, we're kind of admitting that we've ruined things for ourselves.