[nshepperd]

Surely water security is also a basic human right, and that is directly impacted by destructive consumption subsidies.

> If we have a 100% free market-based solution then in many locations the poor and underprivileged have a considerably less access to this vital resource (some won't get any).

If we set water prices to something sane, how much cash do we have to give the poor to leave them in the same financial position?

Surely it can't be much: domestic water usage is but a fraction of agriculture and industry, and the number of poor which couldn't afford water is but a fraction thereof.