- Mike Young (Australian Professor with lots of experience in water markets) has a new report "A generic framework for the abstraction and utilisation of water in England and Wales" [pdf]. Take a look to learn more about how to get markets up and running. Oh, and then read this recent article (quoting Mike) on the successes and challenges in Australia's water markets.
- This activist group says "The California State Water Resources Control Board released a report [PDF] that highlights the need to create a fee on the sale of commercial fertilizer to provide funding to communities struggling with the impacts of nitrate contamination of their groundwater supply." I agree. California farmers need to cover the costs that they have imposed on others (negative externalities) -- most notably to replace polluted groundwater with clean drinking water.
- Nice summary of the promise (and sometimes failure) of Water User Associations
- This paper argues that groundwater rights can, indeed, be "taken" without violating property rights.
- A provisional summary of the EPA’s Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources [PDF] and an interesting point: fracking uses one-third the water it takes to produce natural gas from conventional sources (NB: these sources are neither exploding in popularity nor gross water users). Finally, this paper suggests how to regulate fracking, a topic I covered 18 months ago.
11 March 2013
Speed blogging
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