Kill Your Status Quo

Non-academic writing

Also see my aguanomics blog, comments on other blogs, and/or academic writing.

To do: Download backups for these.

2013

Jan 8: "Water, energy and the economy" at Growing Blue
Jan: "Money Makes the (Water) World Go Around" in Water and Wastewater International 27(6):20-21. [pdf]

2012

Feb 9: "We can no longer waste water like Romans" at the Water Quality and Security blog.
April: "Using Auctions to Share Scarce Water" in Solutions Journal 3(2).
Jun 27: "Water and the economy" at the Growing Blue website
Jul 16: "How we should manage water but sometimes don't" at Growing Blue
Aug 7: "The value of water versus the price we pay" at Growing Blue
Oct: "The SDCWA-Poseidon water purchase agreement does not serve the people of San Diego" for the Surfrider Foundation.
Dec: "Performance insurance: rewarding managers for better service" in Water Utility Management International 7(4):13-16. [pdf]

2011

Jul 11: "Regulation: an acceptable cost for frackers" in Petroleum Economist.
Sep: "Global water tariffs continue upward trend" in Global Water Intelligence 12(9): 35-40.
Sep: "Irrigation: Not as wasteful as it seems" [PDF] in Water Canada.
Oct 14: "Southern California's real water problem -- pricing" in The San Diego Union Tribune.

2010

April: "Water Rights and Human Rights" in Forbes 185(6): 24
July 25: "Water Rights and Human Rights: The Poor Will Not Need Our Charity if We Need Their Water" in Global Water Program Magazine 1(1)
Oct 18: "Addicted to Misery" at aidwatchers.com
Nov 22: "Do smaller water footprints lead to bigger profits?" at The Guardian's Sustainable Business water blog

2009

May: "Market profile: California's Water Crisis" in Global Water Intelligence 10(5): 29-32. Free PDF
May/Jun: "Can we rely on technology to guarantee future water resources?" [PDF] in Canadian Water Treatment

2008

May 26-30: "Water Wars," "Investing in Water," "Drive Less?," "Who's Your Daddy?," "Was Julian Simon Right about the Wrong Thing?" and "A Pause for Thought" at env-econ.net
Jul 15: "The Water Shortage Myth" at Forbes.com
Aug 11-15: "Coase in Action, Resources and Population," "Conversation with My Dad (part two)," "Food or Subdivision?," "Rich and Clean," "Water in Iraq" at env-econ.net
Sep 9 & 11: "The Economics of Clean Water: A Guest Post" and "Oil and Water: A Guest Post" at freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com

pre-2008

Oct 2005: "Free Trade Can Be Fair Trade" [PDF] in Natural Choices: The Davis Co-op Newsletter; a modified version [pdf] was published in Global View.

I am quoted elsewhere

2013

Feb 18: "Farmers agree to tax those who deplete groundwater" in the High Country News

2012

Mar 8: "Doubts raised over UN drinking water claim" in the New Scientist blog
Mar 17: "Does the World Water Forum Need More Conflict?" at Oikos International
Apr 13: "David Zetland is Brash, Outspoken and Unapologetic... and He's Usually Right" at Oikos International
Apr 18: "How to Fix U.S. Water Policy? Less Government, More Market Pricing" in the CEI blog.
May 25: "Threat to water policy if used for 'political gain'" in the Irish Times.
Jun 2: "Recycling sewage to drinking water could save city of San Diego money" in the North County Times
Jul 20: "Water is not a political game. Tariffs should aim at full-cost recovery" [PDF] in Water and Waste Perspectives.
Oct 19: "Finding the right price for water" [PDF] in Environment for Europeans (Green Week Supplement), p. 15 [pdf backup]
Oct 25: "Concerns raised over desalination plant" in the North County Times.

2011

May 21: "Transparency paramount in government" in the Contra Costa Times
May 23: "The drought is over, but water prices escalate" in The Press-Enterprise
Aug 29: "Brownback Urges Reforms to Preserve Ogallala Aquifer" in The Heartlender
Sep 13: "AB 134 Boils State Wastewater Market" at Cal Watchdog.com
Oct 2: "Modesto Irrigation District weighs selling water to SF" in The Modesto Bee
Nov 11: "Water Auctions and Participatory Water Management" at The Nexus Blog

2010

Jan: "Talking with David Zetland about California's water shortage" at hoboagogo.com
Mar: "Water Wars, War of the Well, and Guerilla Well-fare" [PDF] in Groundwater News and Views
Mar: "Our fruits and vegetables at risk?" [in French] in Magazine Jobboom (Canada).
NB: I did not say that no money has been spent on levees since 1970; they spent $90 million on Jones in 2003!
Mar 16: "Water supply increases for Contra Costa; drought restrictions likely to end" in the Contra Costa Times
May 31: "Green-job future a fraud" at Cal Watchdog.com
Jun 21: "Another economic dip coming?" at Cal Watchdog.com
Aug 13: "Kill your lawn" at Sacramento News & Review
Sep 3: "California Board Recommends Reducing River Water Diversion" at Environment & Climate News
Oct 3: "Dam study: Safety vs. water needs" in the Long Beach Press Telegram
Nov 12: "Brown's Job Got Twice as Hard" at Cal Watchdog.com
Nov 19: "China searches for best medicine for ailing scientific journals" in Canadian Medical Association Journal
Nov 29: "Water Footprinting to Deal With Demand for Supplies" in the International Herald Tribune/New York Times

2009

Mar 31: "Is your water too cheap?" in the Albuquerque Journal
Apr 20: "As we use less, we could pay more for water" in the SF Chronicle
May 11: "Nation's largest desal project faces financing hurdles" in the New York Times
Summer: "Running Dry" in Terrain (UC Berkeley)
Jul/Aug: "It'd be easy to conserve water if it weren't so damn cheap" [$] in Mother Jones
Sep 17: "Talking with David Zetland about California's water shortage" in The River News Herald (Rio Vista, CA)
Sep 24: "Who has a spare $1m to prove that water can float?" in The National (Abu Dhabi)
Sep 30: "Are we running dry?" in The Collegean (CSU Fresno)"
Sep/Oct: "Dollars and Sense: How We Pay For Water" in Western Water
Oct: "Interview with David Zetland" [PDF] in Rhodes College Sou'wester

2008

Jul 2: "Paddy-whacked" at FreeExchange (The Economist)
Jul 22: "Want Water? Pay the Price: An Interview With Aguanomics' David Zetland" at BusinessPundit.com
Sep 13: "Think Tank Solutions Run Dry in Our Valley" in the Modesto Bee
Oct 1: "Ebb without Flow: Water May Be the New Oil in a Thirsty Global Economy" in Knowledge@Wharton
Nov 20: "DWR warns of drought, water rationing in" in the Capitol Weekly