For the blog this week, i have decided to focus on the problem the west is having with the depletion of its water source.
The climate of the west is notoriously hot and dry, making farming almost impossible and living conditions in some places, unbearable.
If you look at Death Valley in California for instance, a place where some days no one is allowed near because it was too hot and quite dangerous. If you compare these to the luscious green states of the east, its quite a huge variable.
States like Nevada have a system where they have to import water in, and by having a state where the population is steadily growing this could prove a problem. The issue of who gets the most water is a very controversial one as no one wants to decide this issue.
I have found an article on the economics of water in the west, which i found very interesting as it is written by someone who's witnessed it themselves.
http://www.mises.org/story/1557
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I'm not sure that Anderson's having 'witnessed it for himself' is the most interesting thing about this - though his eyewitness account of the disappearance of the Colorado river 15 years ago is striking. He does make the crucial point that water supply is determined by economic policy. Some of his terms seem rather bizarre however. Why do you think he calls the domination of the water supply by agribusiness 'water socialism'? It seems to me that it is unrestrained corporate capitalism, in the form of agribusiness and it powerful political lobby, that has created this problem. For that reason, I'd like to see this piece balanced by one that had a more ecological perspective. What do others think?
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