Free water?

Hi Tyson, I found your perspective very insightful. Implementing appropriate charges for luxury applications like pools and corporate use encourages responsible water usage and may help offset the costs associated with providing free access to water. Also, creating a system where water-selling companies pay a higher price for the water helps fund these infrastructures development and supports marginalized communities in accessing safe water. All these touch on some great points brought up in lecture! Thanks for sharing

Hey Tyson, I like the stance you took in this post regarding charging water at a higher value when it is not to be consumed such as having a pool. I agree that in order to prevent marginalized communtiies from drinking unclean water that appropriate infrastructure would have to be implemented. We must think about how much money this infrastructure would cost so that we could put an appropriate price on the cost of luxury water.

I agree that free access to clean water for every citizen is something that we should fight for! I also agree that people who use pools and other luxury water products should be charged appropriately, as this is only fair considering that these products use up large quantities of water that could otherwise be given to people who struggle to find drinkable water every day.

I agree with your progress initiation to apply charges for the luxury-oriented use of water. This is the sole problem for sustainability, it happens because socioeconomic status provides advantages for uneven use of resources on the planet without thinking about the possible outcomes for humanity.

I absolutely agree, everyone should have the right to clean and drinkable water, and we need to make steps in that direction. Those companies that are making profits off of bottled water should be paying much more to acquire that water as they are profiting off of it, and do not needs it personally.

Water resource definitely need to be used with more appropriately and we need to show more respect to this highly required resource in our daily life. Distinguishing the water usage and charging for different kinds of usage would be an efficient method to charge more on people using water unnecessarily as well as protect the people who save water during daily life.

I really like your idea about selling water at different prices for different usage and totally agree with you. We need time and money to build the infrastructure which may be feasible in the future.

It's an interesting concept to charge different prices for water depending on the final use of it. There should definitely be a distinction for basic human needs like drinking water and unnecessary use for luxury purposes.

I really like your belief that every citizen will have access to clean water for free, this would be a huge step, by that time not only water crisises should be solved , but we also have equality among all human beings, that would be a very peaceful world. Additionally, I totally agree with your solutions to achieve this and by the way manybe also educate people to cherish water even if we all can use it for free.

I like your idea about reparative water pricing, would you suggest the pricing is localized or standard across the board for one country? I could see benefits either way which is interesting

Hi Tyson,

I agree that every citizen has the right to clean water and I liked your idea about developing infrastructure to solve the water sanitation issues in marginalized communities. Great post!

Hey Tyson!

I really like how specific your solutions are here! Taxing luxury goods like swimming pools would likely be more effective and more accepted than a broader-based progressive water tax, which was my proposed solution.

Focusing on what you said about targeting companies who sell water or water-based products, Nestlé immediately came to mind. I've linked an article below that goes into depth about Nestlé's activities in the U.S. and their consequences for the public. It's shocking to see just how much money is spent lobbying politicians. Perhaps limits on lobbying and reduced ties between government officials and large corporations is another change that needs to take place.

www.theguardian.com

Creek beds are bone dry and once-gushing springs are reduced to trickles as fights play out around the nation over control of nation’s freshwater supply

Interesting points! For places with a lot of water scarcity, I wonder how we far would we go when defining luxury applications - for example, is having a lawn a luxury application? What about a garden that doesn't support many pollinators?

Hello Tyson, while I agree that water should be free for all. But at the sametime I think without pricing the water, the true value would be overlooked

I love the idea of selling a change in water pricing as making basic needs free! Re: big infrastructure, there are also modular / distributed technologies that could solve problems for marginalized communities at much smaller scales, perhaps more cheaply.

Hi Tyson, I also agree that water should be free and accessible to all citizens but this seems like a difficult task. I like your solution suggesting larger corporations should be charged for the use of water as this seems like a feasible step towards a larger, long-term solution.

Hey Tyson, while I do agree that we should push for big infrastructure development into water lines as well as water sanitation, I do want to point out that it is very difficult to do so. The costs alone would probably keep a lot of people away from this idea.