Re:Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
by RobertKerans on Saturday July 30, 2016 @07:11AM
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So then you get to have all the fun issues surrounding nationalised utilities ! (nb I personally feel there are some things that should be public goods, water being one of them, but saying it's a simple solution is naïve)
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Re:Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
by Houshalter on Saturday July 30, 2016 @12:25PM
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The water can be nationalized. But the government still needs to put a price on it to prevent overuse. If the price is higher than the operating costs of the water system, then they have profit they can redistribute to the people.
Re:Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
by RobertKerans on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:20AM
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Metering water seems reasonable but there are upfront costs to more widespread adoption (financial + political/social) + a bureaucratic layer (with all the associated complexity/corruption issues) that would need to be implemented for metering plus nationalisation, so while I'm [quite possibly naïvely] personally in favour, it opens a very large can of worms.