Water Conservation is Bad????
Posted: Dec 14 2005
I've been playing Southern California in the US-California scenario and I've got a big water production shortfall. So I tried one game where I researched it myself and just about the time I was getting finished the WM offers to sell me the tech but I declined. Then in other games I discovered that Northern California has water conservation even though they are water rich. So I bought water conservation on day 1 from No CA for a mere $450.66M and saw a nice drop in water demand.
Problem was that drop in demand for water because of conservation did not translate into more money for purchasing other products. It seemed to make inflation drop more because demand dropped more. It dropped my domestic sales dramatically which ofcourse hurt my profit margin on domestic sales which ofcourse led to more unemployment. The only benefit was a decrease in my trade imbalance but it should not be the only benefit.
Why did my domestic sales drop dramatically when it should have remained about flat as the money saved on water conservation should have translated into more purchases in other products? Granted the water industry would have suffered some small employment losses, but they should have been small not large.
I certainly hope that BG will look into what looks like a bug. Water conservation should not be a bad thing economically, it should be a benefit. The loss of domestic water sales should translate into higher sales of other products with total sales remaining at around the same level. I live very near the Pacific Ocean and occasionally we have to excercise water conservation which isn't really popular but a necessary evil when water is in short supply. A real pity that for several decades the locals have argued over building a water desalination plant without actually doing anything while the population increases.
Thanks,
Eric Larsen
Problem was that drop in demand for water because of conservation did not translate into more money for purchasing other products. It seemed to make inflation drop more because demand dropped more. It dropped my domestic sales dramatically which ofcourse hurt my profit margin on domestic sales which ofcourse led to more unemployment. The only benefit was a decrease in my trade imbalance but it should not be the only benefit.
Why did my domestic sales drop dramatically when it should have remained about flat as the money saved on water conservation should have translated into more purchases in other products? Granted the water industry would have suffered some small employment losses, but they should have been small not large.
I certainly hope that BG will look into what looks like a bug. Water conservation should not be a bad thing economically, it should be a benefit. The loss of domestic water sales should translate into higher sales of other products with total sales remaining at around the same level. I live very near the Pacific Ocean and occasionally we have to excercise water conservation which isn't really popular but a necessary evil when water is in short supply. A real pity that for several decades the locals have argued over building a water desalination plant without actually doing anything while the population increases.
Thanks,
Eric Larsen