Have you heard about Water Shaming? Should you ignore? (REALLY) …. #62

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Did you know “water shaming” is a thing? Designed to curb wasteful water usage, you can report it on an app or a website and never have to confront your neighbor about it.

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Thoughts?

1. Is the practice of water shaming good for society? That is, snitching on a neighbor who has a broken sprinkler head, or having a code enforcement letter coming to your house after you called the municipality on your neighbor…does that help make a more cohesive society?
2. Who pays for the water? Who owns the water? Are we being lied to? Are we actually renting the water? “you get what you pay for” Or not?
3. What are the economics of water? Classic economic theory says that if there is a shortage, it can be mitigated or improved through market pricing. There’s also the concept of substitution. So is this a market failure?
4. Who determines when water is wasted and when it is being used for “good” purposes? Concrete production uses water…lots of it. Buy we can build buildings and roads with it. Is it a “volume” issue? So, for example, you want to take a shower in the morning….you use maybe 20 gallons of water. Where is the line?
5. Have we seen instances of shaming in modern times? Maybe some of you read “the Scarlett letter” in high school. It isn’t that shaming is something new…perhaps the sophistication is though? Apps to shame water users? Massive government spending to change public policy through shaming? Seems strange to me.
6. What about Israel? Always low on water, what have they done? They are currently exporting water to other countries in the middle east? What happened?
A . New and different farming irrigation techniques
B. Development of seeds that require less water, water efficient crops.
C. Discovery that some crops can grow on salt water
D. Technology: Sensors on the pipes that can detect leaks
E. Desalination plants that are cost effective
“Today any country that doesn’t have enough water has only its leaders to blame.”
F. Nationalized water system, paid for by consumers and farmers to and has to be revenue neutral….but this is the actual thought of paying for water.

Our word of the day is Reproach

An object of scorn or contempt

Is the act of water shaming beyond reproach?

Source: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2021/07/12/neighbor-wasting-water-is/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-california-drought-shaming-20150611-story.html

http://www.thetower.org/article/how-israel-is-solving-the-global-water-crisis/

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