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They don’t take water from their own property but have the “right” to take a resource that should be shared by all. Totally different.


Let's assume I agree that it should be a shared resource by all. How do you get from the current state to the desired state.

You start from a place where the state has granted water rights by law and told people that this is yours, you can use it up to the very last drop. This has been the law for 150 years and people have built businesses and lives based on the idea that the government upholds the laws and contracts it made.

Do you just start one day and tell people with water rights that it sucks to suck, but the people have decided that they want what we previously promised was yours forever. It's your fault because you believed that the government would be consistent and uphold it's commitments.




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