[Democratic_Machiavelli]

So, what this is saying is that we have plenty of water, it's just that humans are misusing it, either through greed or incompetence?

Sounds like the "food shortage" everyone keeps mentioning.

Socialism isn't dying. It's just got a new name.

[m1911]

Fresh water isn't distributed equally on the planet, or in proportion to population. Who controls it and how is already a huge problem in the (mostly) peaceful American west. The government is already stepping in to pick winners, i.e. the rice farmers, the article is proposing a different, market based way of dividing a resource.

[Mensch]

You're kidding, right?