He's absolutely right.
Look at "Public" bodies of water and then look a private ones.
In public bodies of water, we find overfishing, dumping, disease, unpleasant conditions, and all around dirty and unsanitary water.
In privately owned or privately run lakes (like Lake Comanche in California), the conditions are pristine.
water Resources should be owned and operated by private citizens. That's the only way to insure an efficient output of water. Government production functions have never provided a efficient nor an abundant output of goods. That has never happened in the history of Mankind.
Just recently, I heard a special about Chinese Cities featured on NPR. In the piece, the narrator commented that private Chinese firms always seems to do better job at planning and operating property. All government created cities were nearly empty.