Collecting Rainwater Now Illegal in Many States ???
 

Is this true ? If it is its crazy as fuck

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.

Utah news report




Link to post http://majortrend.tv/6189/collecting...ver-our-water/

Thios is fucking crazy

Of course they want a piece of the action from the guy using it for commercial purposes.

I guess people will just have to bury the barrels in the ground .... I collect rain water for my garden

That is the craziest thing I have ever heard The water guy on the video said that even the girl collecting water and using it for her plants is illegal and she should have some bullshit water rights thingy but they wont go after "small fish"

That is crazy when you are collecting water from your own roof.

There's no Fluoride in rainwater, it's important to protect people's teeth by forcing them to use the main water supply......or Not :upsidedow

Some are saying that the Feds are after lists of customers from a food storage facility.
http://www.naturalnews.com/034371_fo...er_list.h tml

If people are storing food and collecting rainwater it's a whole lot harder to control them; ideally you need to be able to put whatever you like in their water supply (e.g. Fluoride, Lithium), and for them to follow you around when you hold up a Scooby Snack :2 cents:

Next they'll be complaining when you piss on a tree rather than into a toilet.

Around here, new houses MUST have a rainwater tank and collection system, it is permitted, and mandated...

Definitely crazy! In the UK, national preservationists would have a field day :warning


Water butts save so much water in summer periods, for watering of gardens & much more when the frigging hose pipe bans are prominent :2 cents:

:1orglaugh Or demanding you have to piss on the tree rather than in the toilet :thumbsup

wait till they make it illegal to ... breathe ... air ...:helpme

Collecting rain water has been illegal forever. If you'd just educate yourself a little instead of looking at if out of context with no understanding of it.

They would never do that. How else would people inhale all the chemtrails?

Depends which state you're talking about; it's a law associated with many Western states :2 cents:

One of the prime examples. IIRC - Go research it yourself though.

Arizona gets pretty much all of it's water from the Colorado River. Arizona has almost NO water for itself, it gets it all from the river flowing in from the north.

So, the states to the north in which the Colorado River flows through - have laws about collecting rain water. Because that rain water needs to make it's way to the river. If you had too many people collecting the water instead Arizona and the people living there would have serious serious issues.

Just go research it yourself, it's not that hard. I'll never understand why so many people go watch a youtube video and suddenly have some moronic idea about what is happening in the world. How do you get through life believing every little thing that is told to you?

that is some serious shit

Got to love the good old USA.

You are talking in the US?

In the UK they promote having a water butt :2 cents:

This story seems to come around approximately every six months.

The Colorado River is made up mostly from snow melt, not rain. :2 cents:

No surprises there.

Over here (somewhere in the Western EU), you have to report it if you have your own well and pay a special tax on that. And now that they are looking for even more way to get money, politicians started talking about a new rainwater-tax. They're basically planning to tax you based on the size of your roof.

Most states have laws concerning diverting runoff, primarily to protect the rights of those who may be adversely affected by the change - imagine there is a dry creek bed that fills a small pond used as a water hole for livestock on a nearby farm and someone redirects it for their own purposes - the farmer should have some recourse.

Or, imagine you live next to the woman with the rain barrels. Where before you had no problem, now you live next door to a mosquito breeding ground.

It seems reasonable to me to require people to obtain permits allowing them to capture, store, and use the water in proscribed methods designed to have minimum impact on their neighbors, or the community as a whole.

On a personal note, my grandmother's crazy neighbor decided to block the runoff that runs through their back yards when it rains. Now the water pools in my grandmothers back yard, and as a consequence her downstairs floods every time there is any appreciable rainfall. She never did anything about it due to repeated bad run-ins with that crazy bitch, but now that she has passed we need to address it before we eventually sell the house.

If that were true, why would having a well still be permissible?

This is neither new, nor is it intended for grandpa that collects water to irrigate his garden.

This is for things on a larger scale, some of which is highlighted above.

Not everything is a conspiracy. When a country has hundreds of millions of people they have to pass laws that make no sense at the individual level but does in the Grand scheme of things.

I've heard of this happening in countries, or communities, where they have sold off the water rights or signed public water utility management contracts over to BechTel or alike.

Beyond that, I had not heard of it happening otherwise.
:Oh crap

wait, hold on, in a country where just recently we were enslaving blacks, where we cannot legally smoke a natural plant, but we can carry guns into grocery stores? nah could never happen in a place like america

Don't law enforcement officers have anything better to do?

hows those teefus workin out for you batshit?

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PR_Glen, I've just been in contact with your dentist, he's sent me an X-Ray and I can confirm your teeth are in excellent shape! Well done :thumbsup Unfortunately there's some evidence of side-effects, but it's too late in the day to worry about that. Enjoy :thumbsup

It has nothing to do with who OWNS the water. It has to do with who is getting PAID for the water.

Explain why it's illegal to buy raw milk in California?

http://www.dumblaws.com

In Blyth California
You are not permitted to wear cowboy boots unless you already own at least two cows.

In Carmel California
A man can’t go outside while wearing a jacket and pants that do not match.

In Chico California
Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine.

In Eureka California
Men who wear moustaches are forbidden from kissing women.

In Hollywood California
It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.
Bet that one got you excited?

In Indian Wells California
Drinking intoxicating cement is prohibited.

In Los Angeles California
It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent.

It is a crime for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church.


Dumb Laws are written every day by politicians that tell everyone it's in their best interest and idiots like you believe them.

Oh in that case, if it's someone elses water hitting my house, who the fuck do I sue? their goddamn water is trespassing.

PML & in most countries, it's illegal to beat your wife full stop :upsidedow

Rainwater is free. WTF are people doing? i bet they bought a place on the moon, but who the fuck owns the Moon? Nobody!

because its not safe dumbass?

Yeah man, total truth :thumbsup
Water falls in large reservoirs... are they saying it belongs to the water boards?

You ain't safe but you haven't been banned yet :1orglaugh


@Vendzilla

Theres a big campaign about it http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/us/05raw.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...aw_milk_debate

I get that this is a common sense law in some places, but I wonder if they also control the corporations the same way as they do the public? For example, they say that water can't be destroyed, only converted to a different form, and so minus the water we've sent into space, we have the same amount of water on earth as when the dinosaurs lived.

I've often wondered what kind of effect putting so much water into bottles, cans, and tanks has on the worldwide water supply and levels? Think how many cans of soup there are right now, sitting on shelves. How many cases of coke, beer, wine, juice... It must be astronomical.

only if the cows have been raised with monsanto shit :2 cents: raw milk from HEALTHY COWS AINT BAD AT ALL!

Didn't you know? The water rights are being bought up by Coca Cola and Nestle. Collecting rain water is theft!

Coca Cola made 1 billion white cans this year to raise money for polar bears. Within two or three weeks of releasing they were back to the regular cans. I can't imagine the number of cans of coke sold in a year.

They went back to the regular cans because sales tanked. People thought it was diet coke, didn't realize it was a special can. I had to do a double take at the pizza shop when I got one because I thought it was diet.

They came out with a new red, polar bear can.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle...mer-complaints

no, we have more. Comets and meteorites (small ones as well as large ones) hit the earth all the time, and many contain water. it doesn't sound like a lot, but over millions of years and the amount of objects the hit the earth every day ads up to a lot of water

Taxes: When it rains, they pour in.

we do not always have the same amount of water on earth, it is constantly changing, because it is not an element it is a compound. we in theory have the same amount of hydrogen and oxygen molecules on earth as we always have(note: lots of things come and go from earth as sleazy pointed out above), how many of those are tied together in the h2o compound can very greatly.

Bermuda has no natural fresh water sources so all water is collected as rainwater. The roofs are made of limestone to counter acid rain and it is collected in tanks for drinking water in each house. Just a fun fact.