water as a commodity
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
Water is so 20th century... Haven't we improved on it by now? When are we going to get Water 2.0, with twice the hydration? Like... H4O2... Wait, that'll probably kill us... Hmm... (Yes, I'm being sarcastic... I live in NYC and I drink *gasp* TAP WATER!)
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
So that would be TWF. The Water Futures market, would it? :)
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
wolfbinary wrote:
Isn't water a commodity?
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
Water is not a commodity in the usual sense, since it is generally (local) government provided (in the US), and the infrastructure for cheap delivery isn't so cheap. Not sure about Europe. Other than the 'mass produced' gov water, most companies try to differentiate their water, so (e.g.) they ship it all the way from Fiji and suggest you are being environmentally sound because some of the profits will go towards saving a rain forest there.:confused: IMHO, that is more like "f'ing for virginity" that fighting for peace is. On the other hand, if you don't do any f'ing, you never get any new virgins, and, if you do enough, you can raise the total number, even given you and your mates loss thereof. :-D
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
At a basic level bottled water does this. The UK has water rates to fund the [piped] water supply, so that must act as a market. My wife is from Jordan. It has one of (or possibly the most?) restriected water supplies per capita in the world. I know the water is delivered in tucks, so presumably it is traded as a commodity there, but I suspect the the government subsidises it. Like defence, in most cases the water supply is seen as too critical to be just left to an "unregulated" market I suppose.
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So that would be TWF. The Water Futures market, would it? :)
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I thought I'd bring it up with all the recent reading I've done on water lately. I guess it would be a water futures market.
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
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Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
wolfbinary wrote:
Isn't water a commodity? Does any place trade or put a value to it? I haven't seen or heard of any place doing it.
It happens here in Australia where a river used for crop irrigation flows though multiple states. Those downstream dont want those upstream to use all the water so there is some kind of complex trading scheme. I dont think there are derivative contracts listed on public exchanges though.