LeakBird

Want to use more water?  Pay for it.
David Zetland, Aguanomics.com
The Water Myth is the myth that we have an endless water supply, renewing itself ad infinitum. How can we not believe in this myth when even our cats can drink from the potable water in our toilet bowls, for which we pay less than [...]

(April 15, 2009, Reuters)
Water scarcity means big growth for companies that purify, transport, and distribute the world’s most essential resource, but a global recession that has halted new projects and put off price hikes means water investors will have to wait for the boom years.
Water, cheap and indispensable, has long been prized as a stable [...]

(March 21, 2009, Robert Glennon, AlterNet)
The following is an excerpt from “Unquenchable: American’s Water Crisis and What We Can Do About It” by Robert Glennon. Copyright 2009 Robert Glennon. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington DC.
Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from the introduction of Glennon’s new book and follows a narrative about the water [...]

(March 10, 2009, Reuters)
It’s hard to visualize a water crisis while driving the lush boulevards of Los Angeles, golfing Arizona’s green fairways or watching dancing Las Vegas fountains leap more than 20 stories high.
So look Down Under. A decade into its worst drought in a hundred years Australia is a lesson of what the American [...]

(March 5, 2009, Aguanomics)
…Says Harvard Professor Stavins at the Huffington Post. His op/ed continues:
Throughout the United States, water is under-priced. Efficient use of water will take place only when the price reflects the actual additional cost of making that water available. Lest one fear that higher water rates would mean that Americans would go thirsty, [...]

(Jan. 17, 2009, ENS)
Eight water conservation and control projects along China’s longest river, the Yangtze, will be underway by 2011 to improve water use and protect the environment, a water conservation official said Tuesday.
Cai Qihua, director of the Yangtze Water Resources Commission, announced the projects during the commission’s annual work meeting in Wuhan, the [...]

(Oct. 30, 2008, Florida Today)
“The cities are realizing that the need to rebuild, upgrade and modernize will have to be paid for locally,” Berg said. “The public is much better off paying 4 percent (more) every year for their water, because that’s what the inflation rate is. I would at least expect the price of [...]

Water shortages are being declared all across North America, such as in San Diego, CA today, Phippsburg, CO, Princeton, TX, Seabrook NH, Birmingham, AL by 2025, even in Stephensville, Canada, and water restrictions (voluntary and involuntary) are being put into place, such as in San Bernardino, CA, Kilgore, TX, Rocky Mount, VA, Greenville, SC, and [...]

“In my mind, money is always the biggest motivation for everybody. If you stick it to their pockets, they will fix the daily stupid things,” said the water works chief of Jamestown, Rhode Island last year, regarding Jamestown’s successful water conservation program.
And that is just what will [...]