Where should water come from?

• Main Author: RANDLE, Sayd
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: water provision; Southern California; desalination plant; consumption patterns; water conservation; neoliberalism; wasteful spending; human prediction; problem-solving; planning; Environmental Policy; Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/114; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009165846.005
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This chapter looks at the provision of water by two different Southern California water agencies. One jurisdiction seeks to meet its water needs by financing and buying water from an expensive, energy-intensive desalination plant; the other jurisdiction successfully persuades its residents to reduce...