David Zetland is an assistant professor at Leiden University College, where he teaches various classes on economics.
David was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at UC Berkeley (2008-2010) and a Senior Water Economist at Wageningen University (2011-2013). 
David blogs on water, economics and politics at aguanomics.com and gives many talks to public, professional and academic audiences.
David has two books The End of Abundance: economic solutions to water scarcity (2011)  and Living with Water Scarcity (2014).
He received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis in 2008.
Find out:

if we should be worried more about a shortage of water or a scarcity of water.


if we should learn from the oil industry and develop the technology-equivalent of extracting oil from oil sands and desalinate the ocean water?


if we can tell whether we know the water footprint of a cow and if it’s different in California than Ireland.


why water is actually free and what you pay is for the delivery.


if there is an opportunity costs to acquiring water?


why people living in the slums of India pay up to 50 times the price for water than those who have cheaper piped water.


if a water monopoly is an effective market structure.


if price competition in the market for water would result in the over-use of water consumption.


about the water-diamond paradox.


why David decided to do a PhD in economics after failing to get rich in the dotcom era.


how David came to get his family name ‘Zetland’.


about the coming ‘Water Wars’ and how it has already started.


about Sao Paulo’s troubled water situation and how it’s creating water gang warfare on the streets.


who we should assign the property rights to water.


what David proposes to be the most effective way of managing water.


how Singapore are becoming independent in creating their supply of water and are no longer depending on imports fro Malaysia.


how Singapore are building technologies to recycle water from waste.


why the ‘toilet-to-tap’ water recycling initiative has failed in the US but is working in Singapore.


and much much more.


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