>Regarding the last sentence about competition: Water suppliers are
>generally a
>monopoly unless you imagine the monopoly supplier in South Africa
>competing against
>the monopoly supplier in India. Or am I missing something.
Well there's Evian vs. Perrier vs. San Pellegrino - that's a kind of competition. Make the stuff more expensive than gasoline, and the supply issues will take care of themselves, not to mention energy and transportation policy.
Doug