yeah, right

[ritaxis]

Clean drinking water and agricultural water are scarce and getting scarcer. What should we do about it? Charge more money for it!!!

Idiots.

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[randwolf.livejournal.com]

If you asked California agribusiness to pay a fair price for water, don't you think they'd howl? It would be more than they're paying now, after all. Or even the good citizens of Sacremento, where it's illegal to meter water? That seems to be what the OECD is suggesting. What we don't want to see happen is charging the people who can't pay, and actually the report addresses that.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

If that's what the OECD is suggesting, both I and Reuters appear to have missed it. It looked like they were talking about drinking water primarily.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

The article actually doesn't say--I went over it very carefully. A bit more digging yields an OECD Observer article which talks primarily about agriculture. And here is a position paper. He says the right things, at least, though I also notice he compliments a Nestle CEO on reducing water usage in production. Um. I think a few millennia of thirst in hell might be a sufficient punishment. I am very glad I am not a politician, and so I do not have to say complementary things about Nestle CEOs as part of my job.