Free markets, if the people go there, the water etc will follow.
That's not happening --- they're prohibiting lawns and thinking of outlawing swimming pools. Apparently rivers and lakes don't understand that free market idea and the people who are coming are poverty stricken from Mexico.
Oh really?
Then send that water to Arizona. We (in the West) are smack in the middle of a 10 year drought and are hard pressed for water. But it hasn't deterred the unbridled growth here.
The free market of housing and growth has been spinning out of control here for at least 10 years, and our desert resources are running thin. You have a secret you want to share?