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Is this an issue of price? Charging more for water? Or is outright rationing without doing any price hikes the only viable option?
by mathattack 12y ago
Is this an issue of price? Charging more for water? Or is outright rationing without doing any price hikes the only viable option?
- bjt 12y agoYes it's an issue of price, but in a market that doesn't function very well. Water, ironically, is not very "liquid" in the economic sense. Over time, people will have to pay more for their produce. Some farms will shut down and some crops will stop being grown. If the price of water goes high enough, then desalination or new pipelines from wetter areas will start to make sense.
- mathattack 12y agoI think so too. There's no reason we have to subsidize agriculture in CA. The one question is do the farmers have some legal claim or right to access the water at non-market rates?