This will only be solved by involuntarily reducing corporate and agricultural use, with either huge charges for non-personal water beyond the ration provided, or huge fines for exceeding allowed amounts.
We have tiered charging in Austin, where the cost per gallon jumps at 2000/6000/11,000/20,000. In the past the city has pushed landscapers away from water-hungry plants (like the St. Augustine depicted in the sprinkler image), done a lot of mains upgrades to reduce leaks (very big water loss in old cities), and converted some community pools to splash pads (while adding splash pads to smaller parks). They did suspend the water charges after the Big Freeze burst pipes in so many homes and buildings.
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My first thought on seeing the headline was
“I wonder if it’s like wind and solar, where it’s somewhat competitive when the price of new fake meat equals the price of new real meat, but it will only really take off when the price of new fake meat is competitive with old real meat? And when the price of new fake meat plus storage equals the price of old meat, well, the takeover will just happen in a flash. And then you might ask “a flash in a pan?””
And for reasons I won’t try to understand, let alone explain, that took me back to a Grist headline “The US Is Experiencing A Surplus Of Uneaten Cheese”, whereupon someone thought to ask in the comments if it were really necessary to specify, because who exactly would think to themselves, when reading about a cheese surplus, “Hm, I wonder if that is eaten or uneaten cheese?”
July 1, 2021
“I think it’s explosive.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reacts to claims made by an ExxonMobil lobbyist that the oil giant is fighting climate legislation.@AOC calls their actions “shameful” and says there is a “dark underbelly of Washington that works this way.” pic.twitter.com/IlGEgs6V2D Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) July 1, 2021
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