[CrazedZooChimp]

[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=12002.msg116353#msg116353 date=1428521325]
Water is underpriced and needs to be set up on more of a market basis. There's your starting point.

Raising the price of water, or otherwise making it anything but accessible to everyone relatively equally, will lead to never ending war and civil unrest.  California may be a coming example.
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Alternately it would just cause farmers in the central valley to grow fewer water intensive crops that aren't suited for this climate and move water intensive industrial processes to places that have more water...

[CrazedZooChimp]

[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=12002.msg116353#msg116353 date=1428521325]
Water is underpriced and needs to be set up on more of a market basis. There's your starting point.

Raising the price of water, or otherwise making it anything but accessible to everyone relatively equally, will lead to never ending war and civil unrest.  California may be a coming example.
[/quote]

Alternately it would just cause farmers in the central valley to grow fewer water intensive crops that aren't suited for this climate and move water intensive industrial processes to places that have more water...