Water rights
There is a large and good literature on water, but almost all of it is political and environmental history rather than investment analysis of the tradable right.
7 books
Start here
- The Big ThirstCharles Fishman, 2011
- Cadillac DesertMarc Reisner, 1986
- UnquenchableRobert Glennon, 2009
Books 7
Marc Reisner · 1986 · The canonical account of western water politics and who ended up owning it.
Donald Worster · 1985 · Water control as the basis of power in the arid American West.
T2 Water
Steven Solomon · 2010 · Global history of water as the constraint on wealth and power.
T3 Blue Gold
Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke · 1999 · The anti-privatisation argument; useful as the opposing case.
Robert Glennon · 2002 · Groundwater pumping and the legal fiction of unlimited rights.
T3 Unquenchable
Robert Glennon · 2009 · Glennon's case for pricing and trading water rights.
Charles Fishman · 2011 · The economics of cheap water and what happens when it stops being cheap.