The author is David Zetland (2014).
I wanted to read a book about water. I guess this one was good enough. It goes through the issues of increasing scarcity (not shortage) for our most important resource. The author believes that the rules in place are based on a time when scarcity was not a problem, and so a new paradigm is necessary. The most obvious approach is to increase cost and create financial considerations so that people prioritize their water use and reduce excess consumption. The flip side, though, is that reduced demand can mean reduced revenues that lead to a neglect of infrastructure and longer term problems. Politicians create issues, for a change, as they subsidize certain groups (usually farmers) and try to avoid current headaches to the detriment of longer term sustainability. Summarily, water is a basic necessity and people do not want to feel constrained in how much access they have and in their use. There are no easy answers.
