Right, islands (and Israel) normally do because there's not the space for a large enough reservoir.
We're playing silly buggers with economics again here; when it's rainy, "DeSaL iS uNcOmPeTiTiVe", because the "market rate" for water is pennies per meter cubed. Except, oh wait; suddenly it's dry, the "market rate" skyrockets" and large parts of your economy collapse. The "market rate" was always giving a massive* surplus to consumers, and now it's gone.
This is A Bad Thing.
Turns out it would have been better to have a slightly more expensive water source that was reliable. This fact is somehow obvious to everyone except economists, who should (at least in Europe) be called out as frauds for universally advocating along such idiotic lines.
We're playing silly buggers with economics again here; when it's rainy, "DeSaL iS uNcOmPeTiTiVe", because the "market rate" for water is pennies per meter cubed. Except, oh wait; suddenly it's dry, the "market rate" skyrockets" and large parts of your economy collapse. The "market rate" was always giving a massive* surplus to consumers, and now it's gone.
This is A Bad Thing.
Turns out it would have been better to have a slightly more expensive water source that was reliable. This fact is somehow obvious to everyone except economists, who should (at least in Europe) be called out as frauds for universally advocating along such idiotic lines.