[honkhonkpants]

Good idea! The more people we get to buy into the cooperative the better it will be! If we get everybody to participate we can just call it "government".

[pc2g4d]

Except that government is universal, whereas a river cooperative would only affect the parties directly involved. Thus you could scale things up without getting to government-scale.

[mjevans]

People would complain less if the costs involved were clearly spelled out, as well as who was paying the costs.