https://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2016/03/22/...ter/#more-11942Another piece of dogma driven fuckwittery from the IMF. Water is underpriced and this is a very bad thing.
The piece is the usual tissue of neoliberal assertion, with the cliches to the fore as always. We get "tragedy of the commons" and we get "misallocation of resources" But most entertaining is "demand outstrips supply" and this is a a clear sign that water is underpriced. Only on planet neolib.
Note that the same analysis applies to India and California. Note that in California , drought and unprecedently high temperatures played a part in water shortage, but underpricing also "played a role". Orly?
What I liked best, though was this part
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Water pricing reform should be an essential component of any drive to improve water management, helping to rationalize demand, improve its delivery, and unlock further supply.
Where is that going to come from, then? Will some supreme being be dead pleased with a price rise and so make more?
Breathtakingly blinkered. As always.
