Framing water as a commodity permits free sale and transfer of water rights as private property. Both the United States and Australia treat water as a commodity to a certain extent, but Chile has created the most extreme instance^[1]

Water is not only a commodity in itself but, as virtual water, a vital input required for the production, growing, or manufacture of other products.

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External links and further readingEdit

• Robert Glennon, Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It, Island Press (April 17, 2009), hearcover, 432 pages, ISBN-10: 1597264369 ISBN-13: 978-1597264365