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All economists agree with Peter Brabeck-Letmathe's opinion because it's orthodox water management. If water is scarce and you make it free and don't limit access, then people will waste it and die of thirst. You need mechanisms to limit access of scarce resources otherwise the resources will disappear: this is exactly how animals get hunted to extinction and has been properly understood for centuries as the tragedy of the commons.

was busy beating her boyfriend

That photo of me using a magnifying glass to do detail was actually hamming it up.

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A better analogy would be if you want a sweater, but they sell the sweater and mittens combo for cheaper than the sweater alone.

So you buy the combo and they sue you for not wearing the mittens.

He's clearly sarcastic. It's pretty obvious that they chose that SOC because it was cheap and it did the job.