Selling Water Rights
By AAN Staff
november 6, 2002 10:42 am
At 79, Gaynor Bracewell stands to make $100,000 a year from selling his rights to water from the Apalachee River in North Georgia, Michael Wall writes in Creative Loafing Atlanta. Bracewell's boon could usher in an era, "where water becomes subject to the same rules of commerce as peaches, DVD players and automobiles," Wall writes. In an example of a struggle that's playing out around the globe, "access to water would be not so much an inalienable right as it would be a commodity, delivered to the highest bidder."