Digital Currency - The Water Standard

Eliminating currency notes and coins from the economy will be a financial and economic boon, and an overnight death bell to most organised crime. Drinking water is its best option for a reserve commodity.

Fiat currency, as it stands today, stems directly from the bond market. Bonds are each formed from a series of agreements within and between governments. Long term bonds are based on trending agreements which are essentially government promissory notes. They are laden with human perspective, including human departure from perspective, simply understood as the long term fixture of human error.

A bond which is less dependent on the vulnerability of human perspective and related decision-making is a water utilities market bond. The bonds should not be transferable abroad. Some governments' inherent geographical zones will produce more concentration of drinkable water than others.

They may choose to securitise that drinkable water asset by asserting, in agreement, that the bonds are not externally tradable outside of the given macroeconomy. The macroeconomy then becomes pegged to the price of the water asset and the value of any other trade conducted within the economy and from abroad.

To gain access to a water rich macroeconomy a microeconomy from an alternative macroeconomic zone would invest in the water rich nation via trade or via direct investment. Financial exchange would not allow for artificial instruments of revaluation. The real or fundamental economy is what would exclusively alter monetary revaluation.

All other money types from the M0 to M4 classification would remain the same.

To usher in the new long term bond market, governments will invest in the overall drinkable water supply to the utilities. That includes promotional management of waterways, water bodies and precipitation collection technologies. Part of this management is the adoption of global best practices in conservation including the denial of access to that market of desalination derived water.

That must also exclude other sources which create environmental pressures such as reverse osmosis technology processed water. All sources must be natural and not deplete the water supply required to sustain the broader natural environment or 'natural wealth', including human health.

Natural wealth is a measure such as the mathematical product of the lake area and its allowable height change, or volume change. Similar rubrics may apply to other natural assets. That forms the fixed component. The variable portion or conventionally, 'wealth' is the net remaining water volume which flows through the water utilities networks.

Grey water is a clear target for recycling via solar powered water refinery processing. Grey water may be considered a natural industry input or water source.

The final step in substantially lower cost financial paradigm would be to remove the financial, legal and criminal expense of M0 notes and coins. Current digital currency format would be the salient answer.

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