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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.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Pacific Research Institute: California’s Water Problems Are Mostly Due to Uneven Distribution, Not Lack of Supply

A Pacific Research Institute Report, "Go with the Flow" suggests that California's water problems are not due to lack of supply, but rather distribution. PRI calls for the emergence of water markets to better match supply and demand. Author Amy Kaleita observes that about 75 percent of the water supply originates in the northern third of the state, with 80 percent of the demand in the southern two-thirds. To facilitate distribution, California has a long history of large and costly water projects, with more on the horizon, at a time when the state does not abound in money and its credit rating is low. Under current water law doctrine in California, which is essentially a "use-it-or-lose-it" scheme, there are disincentives for conservation.

http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/publications/go-with-the-flow-why-water-markets-can-solve-californias-water-crisis
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