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Originally Posted by Sly
In your definition, that water is only "free" if you have it on your property. If you don't own property or if your land doesn't have water on it, where would you get the free water?
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There is water in the ground almost everywhere and nobody "owns" that.
Groundwater depletion is becoming a problem though:
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/gwdepletion.html
So if we're to make it a property rights issue, are the people that had their groundwater stolen from underneath them going to be fairly compensated?