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We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Aguanomics - the water myth stems from irrational pricing that does not reflect scarcity

Water is underpriced which leads to the perception that there is no shortage and dissuades conservation. In this piece appearing in Forbes, David Zetland argues that "We can solve America's water "shortage" in the same way that we would solve a shortage in any market. Increase prices until the quantity demanded falls to equal supply. This pricing system would ensure that everyone gets a basic allocation of cheap water while forcing guzzlers to pay a high price." http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/07/14/california-supply-demand-oped-cx_dz_0715water.html


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