[Throaway199999]

You assume that other people can simply bring bottled water to market & compete with discoverability and access to customers with established players?

Or is your point that all people in a market with leaded water should be paying $100 for pure water because it is inherently worth that much per the market.

[estearum]

No, I assume that if anyone can bring bottled water to market, they should have a strong incentive to do so whenever there is a strong need for more of it.

[Throaway199999]

But they (everybody) can't. Bringing bottled water to market requires a clean source, rights to acquire it, and a manufacture & distribution network. Plus retailers. As well, these things are often blocked to newcomers because of existing deals with big players.

[estearum]

> But they (everybody) can't. Bringing bottled water to market requires a clean source, rights to acquire it, and a manufacture & distribution network. Plus retailers.

I didn't say everybody. I said anybody who can.

What you describe is exactly why it's important to have an incentive for the people who do have those resources to employ them towards getting bottled water to this lead-poisoned region...

[Throaway199999]

Who in the lead-poisoned region can buy water for $100 a bottle lol