All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof

Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by anigbrowl on Sunday May 10, 2009 @09:19PM (#602774)

She grows and sells organic food. So being registered as a farmer, she probably has to show where her resources are coming from or be fined.

This is a really interesting article. Tradable resource rights are often touted as a solution to environmental overuse but this is a good example of how they can go badly wrong.

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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by sethg on Monday May 11, 2009 @09:28AM (#603434)

But in this case, it appears that the resource rights don't correspond to actual resources; if the author of the article is correct, only a minute fraction of the rainwater that falls on Holstrom's property would ever actually benefit the senior rights-holders.

(Of course, if those senior rights-holders are farmers, they "benefit" from the right in the sense that if they can block Holstrom from watering her organic garden, they shut down a competitor.)

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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by noonespecial on Sunday May 10, 2009 @11:35PM (#602902)

I wonder what they would say if she used a precipitator to get moisture from the air?

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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by jrockway on Monday May 11, 2009 @08:11AM (#603341)

"Wow, that's an expensive and horrifically inefficient means of getting water, lady."

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