Quick bio: David Zetland received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis in 2008. He is now a S.v. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at UC Berkeley. He blogs on water, economics and politics at aguanomics.com.
more... Before getting his PhD, David worked at startups and non-profits and traveled extensively -- visiting about 70 countries in six years.
Note: The most common mistake people make is misspelling the blog name. It's aGuanomics, not aQuanomics.
CV: Here [PDF]
Photo: (hi-res jpg right click to save)
Media Archive
Audio/video (Also see my water chats and talks -- duplication possible!)
Nov 4: Comments on California water legislation [MP3] at KCBS (4:14 audio)
Oct 15: Personal, Communal, and Political Dimensions of Sustainability: A Conversation with David Zetland [MP3] (one hr audio)
Oct 2: Post-film Q & A [MP3] (56 min audio)
Sep 23: On-air Q&A [MP3] at KFCF (20 min audio)
Jul 22: Comment on Pacific Institute's report at KCBS (4:09 audio)
Jul 15: Raise prices [MP3] at KJZZ (1:35 audio)
Apr 21: Raise prices at KSRO (4 min audio)
Apr 20: Raise prices at KCBS (4:36 audio) [2MB MP3]
Mar 4: No Water Shortage at KFMB (one min audio plus video)
Mar 2: California's Water Crisis (panel) at KALW (one-hour audio) [28MB MP3]
Feb 8: An Integrated Solution to Water Shortage at BIL (20 min audio)
Feb 5: Four Things You should Know about Water at BRAF (20 min video, in three parts)
Jan 15 2009: Overview: A Year of Water at Bloomberg on the Economy (26 min audio) [12MB MP3]
Dec 13: Water and Urban Agriculture at B-ISA (15 min video lost)
Jul 17 2008: There is No Water Shortage at Fox Business News (3 minute video)
My writing elsewhere (not including many comments/discussions on the internet)
July 25: "Water Rights and Human Rights: The Poor Will Not Need Our Charity if We Need Their Water" in Global Water Program Magazine 1(1).
April 2010: "Water Rights and Human Rights" in Forbes 185(6): 24.
May: "Market profile: California's Water Crisis" [$$] in Global Water Intelligence. Free PDF
May/Jun 2009: "Can we rely on technology to guarantee future water resources?" [PDF] in Canadian Water Treatment
Sep 9 & 11: "The Economics of Clean Water: A Guest Post" and "Oil and Water: A Guest Post" at freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com
Aug 11-15: Coase in Action, Resources and Population, Conversation with My Dad (part two), Food or Subdivision?, Rich and Clean, Water in Iraq at env-econ.net
Jul 15: "The Water Shortage Myth" at Forbes.com
May 26-30 2008: Water Wars, Investing in Water, Drive Less?, Who's Your Daddy?, Was Julian Simon Right about the Wrong Thing? and A Pause for Thought at env-econ.net
Oct 2005: "Free Trade Can Be Fair Trade" [PDF] in Natural Choices: The Davis Co-op Newsletter; a modified version [pdf] was published in Global View.
I am quoted elsewhere
Jun
21: "Another
economic dip coming?" at Cal Watchdog.com
May 31: "Green-job
future a fraud" at Cal Watchdog.com
Mar 16: "Water supply increases for Contra Costa; drought restrictions likely to
end" in the Contra Costa Times
Mar: "Our fruits and vegetables at risk?"
[in French] in Magazine Jobboom (Canada).
NB: I did not say that
no money has been spent on levees since 1970; they spent $90 million on
Jones in 2003!
Mar: "Water Wars, War of the Well, and Guerilla Well-fare" [PDF] in Groundwater News and Views
Jan 2010: "Talking with David Zetland about California’s water shortage" at hoboagogo.com
Oct: "Interview with David Zetland" [PDF] in Rhodes College Sou'wester
Sep/Oct: "Dollars and Sense: How We Pay For Water" in Western Water
Sep 30: "Are we running dry?" in The Collegean (CSU Fresno)"
Sep 24: "Who has a spare $1m to prove that water can float?" in The National (Abu Dhabi)
Sep 17: "Talking with David Zetland about California’s water shortage" in The River News Herald (Rio Vista, CA)
Jul/Aug: "It'd be easy to conserve water if it weren't so damn cheap" [$] in Mother Jones
Summer: "Running Dry" in Terrain (UC Berkeley)
May 11: "Nation's largest desal project faces financing hurdles" in the New York Times
Apr 20: "As we use less, we could pay more for water" in the SF Chronicle
Mar 31 2009: "Is your water too cheap?" in the Albuquerque Journal
Nov 20: "DWR warns of drought, water rationing in" in the Capitol Weekly
Oct 1: "Ebb without Flow: Water May Be the New Oil in a Thirsty Global Economy" in Knowledge@Wharton
Sep 13: "Think Tank Solutions Run Dry in Our Valley" in the Modesto Bee
Jul 22 2008: Want Water? Pay the Price: An Interview With Aguanomics’ David Zetland at BusinessPundit.com