water rights – Knowledge Problem

A Wal-mart Long-haul Truck Has More Intelligence in It Than a Typical Water System

1 Comment / Books, Economics, Environmental policy / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson At the Freakonomics blog, guest Charles Fishman explains “Why water will never be the next oil.” A sample: If you leave aside the somewhat silly world of bottled water, there has been almost no innovation in the industry of water for decades. A water facility today uses the exact same technology it did in 1973. In what …

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How Can Property Rights in Subsurface Water Work in West Texas?

5 Comments / Economics, Environmental policy, Law / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson Texans who have drawn there water supplies from the vast but shrinking Ogallala Aquifer are engaged in a complex process of clarifying and/or renegotiating a more exact notion of just what rights they have to access the resource. A story in the Sunday Lubbock Avalanche-Journal provides an update. Some clever “enviropreneurs”, to invoke …

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Rob Harmon at Tedxranier: How the Market Can Keep Streams Flowing

2 Comments / Economics, Environmental policy, Law / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson Rob Harmon gave a TEDx talk last fall in Seattle on a market mechanism that links willing buyers and willing sellers in a way that protects in-stream water flows and helps restore stream ecosystems. Harmon was formerly with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) in Portland, Oregon, where he was a developer of the …

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