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The Solution to California’s Drought: A Free Market in Water
In a new video from ReasonTV, Reed Watson explains how government created an artificial shortage of our most essential resource.
Q&A with Werner Troesken on Flint’s Water Crisis
2014 Julian Simon Fellow Werner Troesken, author of The Great Lead Pipe Disaster, provides some perspective on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Market Magic: Water Woes
Nature causes drought but water shortages are manmade. John Stossel interviews water economist and PERC alum Zack Donohew.
Tapping Water Markets in a Dry State
What changes are needed to help make California’s water supplies more sustainable over the long term and better able to respond to periods of drought? Reed Watson joined a panel of experts offering policy recommendations in The Environmental Forum.
How Taxing Organic Products Could Solve California’s Water Shortage
Terry Anderson and Henry Miller explain why taxing California’s organic agricultural production would enable us to get more “crop for the the drop.”
California Drought on the Mike Slater Radio Show
With Californians sounding the alarm over the current drought, San Diego’s Mike Slater invited PJ Hill to provide some historical perspective and Terry Anderson to outline practical solutions.
Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation
Packed with examples, rather than theory, Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation offers new chapters, new authors, and compelling new stories of environmental entrepreneurs at work.
Pulse Flow on the Colorado
Water markets reconnect the Colorado to the Pacific.
We need to raise the price of water
Allowing price to ration water may be a bitter political pill to swallow, but it makes economic and environmental sense. Writing at The Conversation, Randy Simmons lends insight into California’s water crisis.