Water Rationing IS VERY Costly: Fantastic David Zetland Interview on Bloomberg Radio (Aguanomics)

Jan.16, 2009 in Drought, Pollution, Prop Management, Public Works, Water Bills, Water Conservation, Water Crisis, Water Industry, Water Management, Water Rates, Water Rights, Water Technology

(Jan. 16, 2009, Aguanomics)

David Zetland, an agricultural and resource economist at the University of California, Berkeley, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about the economics of bottled and tap water, conservation, and global water supply and management.

The 26 minute interview [.mp3] is — in my not-humble opinion — pretty damn good.

In it, Keene and I discuss topics previously covered in these posts:

My Politics
Bottled Water & Tap Water (many posts)
Fiji Water (many posts)
Drugs in Water
Bottled Water as Competition for Local Utilities
My flip flop on the Peripheral Canal
Journalistic Failure
Abuse of Price Theory
Water Pricing
Santa Barbara and Conservation Pricing
Water and Abundance
Water Pricing — Cost or Value
Rationing (many posts)
Water is too cheap (everywhere on this blog!)
Water, Pipes and the Poor
Free Water Doesn’t Help the Poor
Community and Water
Institutions, not Pipes
Sachs is Wrong (again)
Colorado River Problems (many posts)
UN Declaration of Water Rights
Climate Change (many posts)
Water as a Scarce Resource (many posts)
Blogging as a Career Destroyer
Winner Takes All Political Fights (many posts)

Yes, there’s a lot of content in that podcast :)

We also cover other interesting topics (no one place on the web for water info, so many water conferences, I am not for sale, etc.)

And, by the way, Krugman doesn’t read my blog (as far as I know!)

Bottom Line: That was fun. Water Chats will be better — since you can ask your own questions! (Check the calendar to the right or email me to schedule one!)