Chris and I had lunch today with David Zetland in downtown Toronto. David is S.v. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy, UC Berkeley. Chris and I have been corresponding with David for a number of months about water policy and the economics of water.
David was also kind enough to do a short guest lecture in April for our Global Environmental Policy class. Our class called David's office at Berkeley via teleconferencing. He shared many great insights about how we value water, how we should price it, how we should distribute it and how we can work better and more effectively with water managers and bureaucrats.
David maintains a water economics blog titled "Aguanomics".
I would encourage you to read his short but very insightful article in Forbes Magazine titled "The Water Shortage Myth". It can be found here:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/14/california-supply-demand-oped-cx_dz_0715water.html.
Also, he did a really neat interview with Tom Keene from Bloomberg Radio back in January 2009. Keene poses questions to Zetland concerning water supply, thoughts on bottled water versus tap water, pricing mechanisms, and water distribution. If you haven't heard it already, check out the audio file here:
http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/Economics/On_Economy/vGBtvsfu8Ofg.mp3
It was a privilege to have lunch with David as we shared stories, talked about water policy, our future plans and more. We wish him all the best with his travels in Central America.
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