Living with Water Scarcity
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Living with Water Scarcity
| Author | David Zetland |
|---|---|
| Published | 2014 |
| Pages | 116 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | David Zetland’s short, non-technical argument that most water shortages are pricing failures rather than physical ones: water for people is a small volume sensibly treated as a right, while water for profit — most of it, taken by agriculture and industry — is wasted because it is charged at nothing. The second half works through what would allocate it instead: tiered tariffs, tradable rights, auctions, environmental flows bought rather than mandated. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, under Evolution of Institutions and Public Administration, beside Ostrom — the applied case, where governing a shared resource stops being a general theory and becomes a question about a particular river. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Water — the resource in question.
- Water Rights — the allocation mechanism the book argues for.
- Price — the signal it says is missing.
- Incentives — why free water gets wasted.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.