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Dystopian is “water was free so the big farming business pumped the aquifer dry and exported the agricultural goods. Now people here have no water and the land
by JoshGG 3y ago
Dystopian is “water was free so the big farming business pumped the aquifer dry and exported the agricultural goods. Now people here have no water and the land is a desert”.
This stuff is economics 101.
The full quote is:
“”Soren Bjorn, a senior executive at Driscoll’s who in January will become the chief executive, said in an interview that he “absolutely” sees the region as a model of water pricing that could be replicated in water-stressed regions from Texas to Portugal. “Water can’t be free anywhere, because you can’t run a sustainable water supply without pricing it,” he said. “That would apply to the globe."
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- irrational 3y agoWhere I live it rains for the majority of the year. We could put out buckets and easily capture enough to care for our needs, but then you have to deal with making sure what we are going to ingest is clean and deal with no water pressure and hauling water around the house. It is so much easier to pay someone else to deal with it. So, water could be free some places, but…
- atrus 3y agoNothing of what you described is free though? It's going to take some sort of resources no matter what.
- irrational 3y agoYou mean like buckets to hold the water? Those would cost money, but would be a one time purchase.
- ta1243 3y agoYou don't live in Arizona
- intrasight 3y agoWater is free. What we pay for is it's delivery and it's treatment. I remember learning in elementary school that you're not allowed to charge for water.
- wmf 3y agoThe article directly contradicts this. Farmers are paying water tax even for their own wells.
- ninkendo 3y agoAs they should, because there’s no such thing as “your own well.” A well lets you pump water from a shared aquifer. If 100 parcels of land were on one aquifer and one resident pumped all of it, leaving none for anyone else, it would be a misleading lie to say they were just pumping “their own well.”
- intrasight 3y agoThen farmers aren't purchasing water - they are being taxed.