Green Options » online debate http://greenoptions.com/tag/online-debate Posts tagged 'online debate' Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:34:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en What Is the The Value of Water: An Online Debate By The Economist http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/10/03/what-is-the-the-value-of-water-an-online-debate-by-the-economist/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/10/03/what-is-the-the-value-of-water-an-online-debate-by-the-economist/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:34:54 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/10/03/what-is-the-the-value-of-water-an-online-debate-by-the-economist/ While we all know that there is no free lunch, reality is that very soon there might be no free water either. As both an industrial input and a prerequisite of life, water has become extremely scarce for roughly a billion people who do not have a constant supply of clean and safe water, so the issue is of extreme importance.

On September 30th, The Economist started a two-week long Oxford-style online debate on the value of water.

The proposition: “This house believes that water, as a scarce resource, should be priced according to its market value.”

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