https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks Share noticings, quotations, and questions from the NYT Articles. Go through a gallery walk and make comments on your classmates' noticing. en-us 2022-02-15 10:38:30 UTC 2026-02-25 00:47:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228879661 2022-06-23 13:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228879661 fam364 https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228881809 "Water markets have been called a “paradise for arbitrage,” an approach in which professionals use trading speed and access to information for profit." The accessibility to water in relation to its profitability on the market displaces local communities by depleting them of their resources in order to commercialize water for the purpose of profiting off smaller communities. ]]> 2022-06-23 13:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228881809 https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228882890 From listening to the Two Indicators: Water Pressure Podcast, we learned a great deal about the drought issues within the West and how there is a water shortage with the Colorado River. As the years go by, more water is being stripped away from states within the West, which is causing nothing but negative impacts on both the environment and those who live within the community. This podcast made us think about the Netflix Explained Video: “Water Crisis”. Multiple people within the short episode mention how putting a higher price on water might have benefits and prevent people from wasting it and allow them to appreciate it more. In the podcast, Christine also mentions the idea of people starting to think about water as if it is money. We found it very interesting how this idea continues to come up in many of the resources that we have been looking at over the course of the semester. ]]> 2022-06-23 13:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228882890 https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228884177 "More frustrating for those trying to solve the West’s dire water problems, if water runs out, because of those generous rights granted a century ago, the metropolises will have to turn off their taps before the old farms."
If they run in to issues with their water plan, the people in the nearby towns and farms will suffer because their water will be taken away instead. People in farms and small towns also tend to have to pay higher prices for water since it is so valuable than people in big cities. ]]> 2022-06-23 13:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228884177 https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228887064 It's surprising to hear how "outsider investors are distorting the [water] market" in Australia and how that differed to the US.
I agree with the idea of using “a market-based approach” because it will be much easier to deal with the threat of climate change if all sectors, including public and private, work together.]]> 2022-06-23 13:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228887064 https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228889530 It was interesting to hear about the ways in which both the NYT article and Planet Money podcast discussing the history of water rights in the west and changing economic climate in regards to water distribution. Thinking about both the NYT article and podcast, there is the idea of the idea of investing water and creating a water market. Concepts like “water bankruptcy”where we can look at water from an economic perspective and seeing it as shares or debt is a crucial perspective. We also learned about the different “traders” of water and the risks of economic hierarchy. This relates to who invests in water, private investors vs. Farmers. More importantly, there is a risk of exploiting farmers water use, ultimately hurting the farmers.  Regulation is an important factor to monitoring this system. ]]> 2022-06-23 13:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8792/Bookmarks/wish/2228889530