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Water Conservation
Salted Irrigation
Salt deposits can destroy farm land, but at long last, one scientist has found a crop that will tolerate irrigation by sea water.
How Water Markets Can End Conflicts
By Clay J, Landry To the Reader Water has been an important concern in the West since the days of the Gold Rush. With today’s rapidly growing populations, many western states are facing greater pressure than ever from ranchers, farmers, environmentalists and the residents of growing cities to divide water among competing interests. The century-oldContinue reading “How Water Markets Can End Conflicts”
Water, water everywhere, waiting for a market
Orange County RegisterJuly 18, 1999 CLAY LANDRYCopyright 1999 The Orange County Register THE WRITER: Mr. Landry is a research associate at the political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Mont., and the author of "Saving Our Streams Through Water Markets: A Practical Guide." Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called for water markets, conservation and aquifer recharge inContinue reading “Water, water everywhere, waiting for a market”
Harnessing Markets to Improve Water Quality
Using a free-market approach can save money and reduce pollution
Saving Our Streams Through Water Markets
A Summary A new handbook by Clay J. Landry, Saving Our Streams through Water Markets, is likely to become an essential guide for those interested in using water markets to protect fish and other wildlife in streams and rivers. Saving Our Streams gives practical advice about this rapidly emerging market for environmentalists, agency officials, ranchers,Continue reading “Saving Our Streams Through Water Markets”
PERC Research Associate Clay Landry Talks About Water Marketing
NWRA (National Water Resources Association): What is PERC’s mission and how are you included in groundwater marketing? LANDRY: We’re a non-profit organization – a think-tank is what some people like to call us– that looks at market solutions to environmental problems. PERC was a pioneer in the approach known as free market environmentalism. This isContinue reading “PERC Research Associate Clay Landry Talks About Water Marketing”
Market Plan Can Ease State Water Shortage
The Orange County RegisterFebruary 16, 1998 By Terry L. Anderson The Issue: Our water programs don’t work well because they are predicated on politics, not market factors. Just as El Nino rains are sending rivers over their banks, the Resources Agency of California has released a draft of the California Water Plan predicting statewide shortagesContinue reading “Market Plan Can Ease State Water Shortage”
Priming the Invisible Pump
Rain and snow may be falling today, but throughout the world, people continually fear the threat of water shortages. Is there too little water for the world's growing population? Are we running out of water?
Water Markets:
Water MarketsPriming the Invisible Pump Terry L. Anderson and Pamela S. Snyder Since Water Crisis: Ending the Policy Drought was first published in 1983, water markets have been transformed from the theoretical to the practical. Today, water marketing is being used to improve both water allocation and water quality. This book details the enormous numberContinue reading “Water Markets:”