Comments on: Should Water Have A Price? http://blog.acton.org/archives/2261-should-water-have-a-price.html "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jimmie J http://blog.acton.org/archives/2261-should-water-have-a-price.html#comment-2949 Jimmie J Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:43:47 +0000 http://pb3.acton.org/?p=2153#comment-2949 What people fail to realize is that water rights has been an issue dating back to the 1800's. Ranchers would claim a watering area and fence it off. Others would go after it using any means nessacery. Cities have stripped away the rights of property owners to irrigate fields and pastures. Cities are using Political power to restrict property owners from pumping from rivers and lakes that run through their property. This is already a major issue in rural Texas, and will only get much more nasty. What people fail to realize is that water rights has been an issue dating back to the 1800′s. Ranchers would claim a watering area and fence it off. Others would go after it using any means nessacery.
Cities have stripped away the rights of property owners to irrigate fields and pastures.
Cities are using Political power to restrict property owners from pumping from rivers and lakes that run through their property.
This is already a major issue in rural Texas, and will only get much more nasty.

]]> By: Clare Krishan http://blog.acton.org/archives/2261-should-water-have-a-price.html#comment-2923 Clare Krishan Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:13:06 +0000 http://pb3.acton.org/?p=2153#comment-2923 Sure, water can have a price, but what about _watercourse__rights_? Last I heard H20 rains from clouds into watersheds that are no respecters of international borders, and then undemocratically flows to the sea along whichever channels aren't silted up, dammed, or diverted by despots selling it first... Be careful what you wish for... we thought wars for oil were expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet! Sure, water can have a price, but what about _watercourse__rights_? Last I heard H20 rains from clouds into watersheds that are no respecters of international borders, and then undemocratically flows to the sea along whichever channels aren’t silted up, dammed, or diverted by despots selling it first…

Be careful what you wish for…
we thought wars for oil were expensive, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

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