Comments on: Water – It’s Not Here http://atlanta.metblogs.com/2007/10/09/water-its-not-here/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Seth http://atlanta.metblogs.com/2007/10/09/water-its-not-here/comment-page-1/#comment-8686 Seth Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:22:14 +0000 http://atlanta.metblogs.com/2007/10/09/water-its-not-here/#comment-8686 Wow! I really didn't think it was that dire. Wow! I really didn’t think it was that dire.

]]> By: dreish http://atlanta.metblogs.com/2007/10/09/water-its-not-here/comment-page-1/#comment-8685 dreish Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:50:36 +0000 http://atlanta.metblogs.com/2007/10/09/water-its-not-here/#comment-8685 Raise the price by a factor of 10 or 20 (whatever it takes to eliminate the shortage), and split the profits among all the customers (per resident). That way if you use an average amount of water, your bill doesn't go up, but there's a huge incentive to reduce your water usage no matter how much you use. And yes, it would mean water-hogging businesses would be hurt. But right now, they're hurting the rest of us and getting away with it, so they can talk to the invisible hand for all I care. Raise the price by a factor of 10 or 20 (whatever it takes to eliminate the shortage), and split the profits among all the customers (per resident). That way if you use an average amount of water, your bill doesn’t go up, but there’s a huge incentive to reduce your water usage no matter how much you use.

And yes, it would mean water-hogging businesses would be hurt. But right now, they’re hurting the rest of us and getting away with it, so they can talk to the invisible hand for all I care.

]]> By: Vinny http://atlanta.metblogs.com/2007/10/09/water-its-not-here/comment-page-1/#comment-8684 Vinny Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:22:25 +0000 http://atlanta.metblogs.com/2007/10/09/water-its-not-here/#comment-8684 Holy ****! It's funny that the video said only a slow moving hurricane could replenish us. Then it it said that would be a miracle. Atlanta is about to face it's toughest environmental challenge in centuries. People don't have to believe in global warming but it believes in us. Holy ****! It’s funny that the video said only a slow moving hurricane could replenish us. Then it it said that would be a miracle. Atlanta is about to face it’s toughest environmental challenge in centuries. People don’t have to believe in global warming but it believes in us.

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