[quote=spdrun]But water should be priced to reflect its actual cost, not subsidized. Also, pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides required to maintain a lawn should be priced to reflect their environmental cost and restricted in use.
Runoff from lawns poisons the ocean, and chemicals are used far more liberally for lawns than for farms.[/quote]
That’s exactly what I said. Price water appropriately, but don’t restrict use of it. Allow the people to restrict their own usage base on their budget. Just like electricity.
As for runoff, we should implement storm drain runoff recapturing system so we can recycle that water too. So, there would be NO storm drain runoff.
Like I said, it’s all pretty straight forward, desal, toilet to tap, storm drain runoff, mini dams, large dams. If we would just implement those 5 things, we would no longer need to talk about water shortage.
