"Some members of the industry believe that unified, well-organized voluntary attempt to limit diversion of guns to criminals would be the equivalent of a public recognition of failures to take such steps in the past," Judge Weinstein wrote, "with an implied responsibility for thousands of avoidable deaths".
Other measures may do a better job of limiting diversion, such as a local Patch-for-Patch program for fentanyl.
And this week, the House approved legislation to limit those diversions to $4 billion, with the implicit promise to tighten the limit in future sessions.
Watershed managers will increasingly want to limit water diversion from rivers to maintain flood plains, permit fish to migrate, recycle organic matter and maintain water quality.
Periodic exposure to oxygen also increased power production, presumably by limiting the diversion of electrons to methanogenesis.
"We want to make sure that we're allowing the bona fide patients to get what they need while, at the same time, limiting illicit diversion".
Paul Sinclair, director of campaigns, said the proposed reduction to the Northern Basin sustainable diversion limit of 70 billion litres of water would have been devastating for the Darling river system and communities downstream of Bourke.
The southern basin changes include two elements: a plan to achieve 605GL of water savings under the sustainable diversion limit through projects that are designed to use water more efficiently.
Requiring costly vertical integration for the MMCs and giving individual communities the opportunity to opt out of allowing the trade are sensible ways to provide barriers to entry, adhere to citizens' will, and limit black market diversion.
Interestingly, this communal and equitable protection has a high but finite limit because of diversion to the few remaining unprotected hosts at high coverage [ 19].
