"Solving" the lack of water by .... eliminating food. Typical excellent work, Alex!https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/1428192471356428289 …
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Ex nihilo? Sure! But farmers can't eat huge cost increases + that water supplies 15% of America's crops and 13% of livestock. Flippant libertarian "ideology will simply fix this!" solution always reads as stupid to me. IMO, a smart take is one that owns + addresses costs of plan
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yeah, the right way to introduce a new policy is to give offsets to make it net zero at first if right now suburbanites would be WILLING to pay $50/mo for water, and a farmer blows through 15,000 times that much water (so $750,000/mo of value) to GENERATE $5,000/mo of profits...
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there were many attempts to bring water to the SW via businesses at market rates which all failed, only massive gov intervention worked. entire SW is built on 100-year old ongoing subsidy, kind of amazing/appalling
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A book on this subject, Cadillac Desert, is the best book about civil engineering I've ever read.
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I wonder if there's a book in which the characters price water into crop production as a scarce and valuable resource.

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I have in fact read such a book.
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It would probably result in fewer Californians. So we have that going for us, which is nice.
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The problem is the water rights are insane and it would require immense political will to screw over a giant moneyed donor class.
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read further in my thread I'm not proposing stealing water rights I'm just proposing making them more easily tradeable
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(nothing worse than your state getting swamped with fleeing Californians)
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