Collecting Rainwater Now Illegal in Many States as Big Government Claims Ownership Over Our Water
Breaking News, Liberty Monday, December 12th, 2011
By Eddie Sage, ConsciousnessTV
Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties because, according to officials,that rain belongs to someone else.
As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from “diverting” water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use.
Check out this YouTube video of a news report out of Salt Lake City, Utah, about the issue. It’s illegal in Utah to divert rainwater without a valid water right, and Mark Miller of Mark Miller Toyota, found this out the hard way.
After constructing a large rainwater collection system at his new dealership to use for washing new cars, Miller found out that the project was actually an “unlawful diversion of rainwater.” Even though it makes logical conservation sense to collect rainwater for this type of use since rain is scarce in Utah, it’s still considered a violation of water rights which apparently belong exclusively to Utah’s various government bodies.
“Utah’s the second driest state in the nation. Our laws probably ought to catch up with that,” explained Miller in response to the state’s ridiculous rainwater collection ban.
To read more, visit: http://majortrend.tv/6189/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-states-as-big-government-claims-ownership-over-our-water/
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It’s been that way in WA state for a very long time, and yet there are some municipalities that offer rain barrels for low money. It seems we need to not let so much polluted runoff into the Puget Sound. I’m all for collecting rainwater!
It could be worse. Untlil recently, Colorado Springs was charging a “stormwater fee” for water that fell on your property that you weren’t even allowed to collect. Since the citizens of CO passed a state law there could be no new taxes or increase in taxes without going to a vote of the people, the city decided to call it a “fee” instead of a tax. Then the court deemed the fee was illegal since it was in fact a tax. Did the city return the “fees” they’d already collected to the property owners? No, in fact for those who protested the fee from the beginning and refused to pay, they’ve been rewarded with a lien on their property for the illegal fee. Aint government grand?
Probably not a good idea to collect rainwater anyway with all that’s being sprayed into the air.
Are you F****** stupid?
That argument is tantamount to: ” not a good idea to receive cash in bills or coins because you don’t know what germs or drugs are on them.” Reality?
You find a way to deal with it.
Incidentally, an inch of rain on one square foot of hard surface nets six tents of a gallon of better water than available for municipal water treatments.
100 square feet? Sixty gallons of water.
Small house of 2000 sq feet? 1200 gallons of life- giving water….per inch!
Now how many inches of rain does your town get per year?
Do just a little math and see how much “wealth” is in rain.
Raindrops are Nature’s pennies.
Crazy, crazy, crazy!! Next, you can’t enjoy the sun on your own property. And if you go to the beach, and bring home some sand in your swimming suit, you’ll be charged for that too!! Sheesh!