Would one possible solution to the water troubles be a Water Tax and Dividend? I'm curious about how various water users pay for water. Do we all pay similar rates? Or do certain applications pay less or even not pay at all?
Water conservation is absolutely a good thing, but I'm not sure it makes sense economically to spend tens of thousands (lower Salt River) or hundreds of thousands (Peoria) of dollars per acre foot of water saved. Ducey's desal boondoggle would have brought in new water supplies for less than $10,000/acre-foot but it was called too expensive.
Perhaps the 2-day Senate Covid hearing just needed more cowbell.
Would one possible solution to the water troubles be a Water Tax and Dividend? I'm curious about how various water users pay for water. Do we all pay similar rates? Or do certain applications pay less or even not pay at all?
Water conservation is absolutely a good thing, but I'm not sure it makes sense economically to spend tens of thousands (lower Salt River) or hundreds of thousands (Peoria) of dollars per acre foot of water saved. Ducey's desal boondoggle would have brought in new water supplies for less than $10,000/acre-foot but it was called too expensive.
I did the math on some of those too but I didn’t think about the Ducey desal thing. Good point!