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The water moratorium
Callagy, Sean
Callagy, Sean
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"his Comment analyzes a small town’s efforts to regulate its municipal water supply by enacting a moratorium on new connections. The Comment relates the history of the policy, discusses the legal underpinnings of a water moratorium, and explores the effects of the moratorium. The Comment then discusses attributes of the moratorium, especially as it concerns the use of a formal governmental body to apportion rights, and queries why the moratorium has remained in place for nearly four decades. Finding that the moratorium represents a rational but imperfect response to scarcity of a critical natural resource, the Comment proposes a regime of tradable rights in water as a means of increasing efficiency in resource allocation while overcoming the institutional, legal, and societal deadlock perpetuated by the moratorium." (p. 1)
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2008
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