Water, water, everywhere

Water the sand please

In other news, Hamermesh is my least favourite blogger here. About half of what he posts seems like he doesn't understand things. Water rationing during a drought is a bad idea relative to higher water prices as dictated by a free market, yes. But so is WATERING YOUR FUCKING LAWN when you live in a DESERT. If the water was priced at its actual value, the average person living in Central Texas probably wouldn't bother with a lawn of any sort because they couldn't afford it relative to more important uses of water: bathing, washing, drinking, even gardening or agricultural production. When you're trying to grow something that isn't supposed to grow in an arid climate, you're wasting resources by using them inefficiently.

In summary, if the water prices went up to where they would have to, he wouldn't be complaining about his lawn watering in the first place. He probably wouldn't have one.