rationing

Anywhere you see rationing and price fixing, you can find black markets nearby, assuming the distortion is high enough.

Of course if 80% of the states water goes to farmers and you're 20% below normal, that means farmers have to be part of rationing.

This seems the usual answer of making sure rationing only effects those who can't pay to avoid it.

The Californians vote to move to heavy water rationing and regulation due to the threat of continuous draught.

It felt quite ridiculous that the shops were suddenly rationing butter to a pack per customer in December.

In practice, only those with the best connections are able to participate in the daily trade quota rationing.

It's the same foolishness as supporting mandatory water rationing instead of raising the price for water during a drought.

Furthermore, because infinite copies of data can be made, there is no reason for price rationing.

Desalination plants went up along the coast and rationing and conservation efforts went in to full-effect.

This article doesn't address why the California government is being so stupid about water rationing.

Even if only some people had unmet needs, the society would still fail to be post-scarcity, since post-scarcity means rationing is not necessary because there isn't contention for resources.

But do you really think that there are many cases where you would prefer rationing, effectively what one-person-one-vote does, to a marketplace?

Of course, we can't implement the obvious and economically rational solution: let the water market operate freely, rather than having the government dictate prices, impose rationing, encourage neighbors to rat out putative "water wasters" and so on.