Certainly NOT THE PEOPLE

Who thinks they can bottle it and sell it

The control freak rulers think they own everything.

I don’t know about water but I’m heavily invested in dihydrogen oxide.

Gravity.

If you try to take it away, I have a feeling you will soon find out to whom it belongs.

Thank you very much for this fantastic article, I did not know very well how the ownership of water worked in Europe and in the east and west of the United States, in an era where water is increasingly precious.

the water wars have been brewing quietly, for now

If it was possible to own the water and then sell the rights to it the markets and price signals would make conservation work. But no. We have to collectivize it.

What's also really interesting is that Native reservations often have the worst shortages because they aren't allowed to control or sell the water on their land. https://perc.org/2022/02/14/addressing-institutional-barriers-to-native-american-water-marketing/

There's some really fascinating research on this published by the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) if you want to give it a look.

God,coz He created water