NEW YORK — A groundwater expert from Oregon State University, noting parallels between the planet’s dwindling oil supplies and groundwater depletion, has suggested a rewrite of water law that follows the oil industry’s lead and allows for all property owners over an aquifer to control the resource, according to a November 9 post to The New York Times’ “Green Inc.” blog.
According to Todd Jarvis, the associate director of the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University, “The race to the pump serves nobody.”
Jarvis instead suggests “moving to a method where all property owners over an aquifer would run it cooperatively and agree to divide the costs and profits proportionately,” according to the blog.
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