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Re:America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow by googlryas on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @12:13PM (#37310066)
Perhaps that's an end-around for water rights issues. You can't "just" take the water rights from long established players. But it might be easier to simply apply a water tax, a base rate multiplied by how much water the product required to create, divided by the abundance of water in the region.
Re:America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow by jacobr1 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:19AM (#37337541)
Yes this is the hard part. Any change to existing rights is very politically difficult to accomplish.