http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/2007/10/29/what-to-do-about-looming-water-shortages/ What is seen and what is unseen. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:23:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/2007/10/29/what-to-do-about-looming-water-shortages/comment-page-1/#comment-6207 Travis Verdin Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:22:43 +0000 http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/2007/10/29/what-to-do-about-looming-water-shortages/#comment-6207 Water rights should be sold to private suppliers to create a market for water. How can a water supplier generate a larger market for the uses of water? How can a supplier extract more water for use? These are just a couple of questions that would be answered if the municiple water supplies were privatized. The bottled water industry is a prime example of the profitability of making water a private commodity. Each brand touts their own "spring", some are even filled from municiple water supplies. What keeps these companies in business selling municiple water? The answer is money! Water rights should be sold to private suppliers to create a market for water. How can a water supplier generate a larger market for the uses of water? How can a supplier extract more water for use? These are just a couple of questions that would be answered if the municiple water supplies were privatized. The bottled water industry is a prime example of the profitability of making water a private commodity. Each brand touts their own “spring”, some are even filled from municiple water supplies. What keeps these companies in business selling municiple water? The answer is money!

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