Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water « Occupy The Planet
source: http://occupytheplanet.org/2011/12/08/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-states-as-big...
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JanforGore
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Water is a public trust and commons and belongs to all. If you harvest rainwater to water lawns, gardens, etc. and that water is returned back into the hydrologic cycle, there is no problem. If however, you hoard it and store it in cisterns simply to use it for your own uses without returning it back into the hydrologic cycle to replenish rivers and streams that are suffering due to drought, I suppose then you are seen as hoarding and only exacerbating the problem. I can actually see both sides of this in that case. This is more about restrictions on use rather than outright privatization.
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JanforGore
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MotherForTruth
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Oxygen taxation is next.
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MotherForTruth
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CalgarC
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its only illegal if you get caught!!!... i have come to live that way these days...
collect what you want is a free planet, thats why we have protests across the globe
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CalgarC
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GavinTheMother
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wtf...really?
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GavinTheMother
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hammywill
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If they could find a way to charge you to breathe oxygen they would.
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hammywill
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GavinTheMother
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hammywill:
I'm sure they are working on it
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GavinTheMother
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Andover
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GavinTheMother:
It's called taxes
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Andover
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MotherForTruth
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hammywill:
Google Oxygen taxation.
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MotherForTruth
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hammywill
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These laws are not for "Big Government" as the post's headline implies. It is to protect PRIVATELY owned water rights.
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hammywill
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GavinTheMother
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hammywill:
Who sold them the rights? Big Government
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GavinTheMother
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wally60
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GavinTheMother:
no one owns the right to rain or snow.but if they can charge you they will then they wiil put a tax on it also.is the world just nuts or is it me.
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wally60
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artemis6
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The corporate overlords what to have a monopoly on water , so they can charge us whatever they wish .... and we will pay . At least they THINK that . Fools .
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artemis6
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Johnny_Los_Angeles
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The u.s. is evil
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Johnny_Los_Angeles
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squarethecircle
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Johnny_Los_Angeles:
just the few we are not paying attention to behind the curtain I believe
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squarethecircle
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squarethecircle
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reminds me of not being able to consume the milk out of your own cow...how much more will we allow?
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squarethecircle
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ilikeike
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It's all about control, next they will say it's illegal to collect sunlight with solar panels.
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ilikeike
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lazloman
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ilikeike:
How about the air we breathe? They can't make us stop breathing, but will they tax us instead?
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lazloman
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squarethecircle
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lazloman:
I think they are trying to with all the crap they are spraying in the sky...today in FL it looks like a twisted crosshatch with at least 4 planes crossing back and forth at a time...insanity
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squarethecircle
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ilikeike
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lazloman:
I wouldn't put it past them, especially if you are an "extremist".
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ilikeike
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VoyagerFilms
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What BS not having the "water rights" to rain water falling on your own property! BS! I'd say the City or State had ZERO right to take it and allocate such "water rights" in the first place. A violation of our Constitutional rights I suspect
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VoyagerFilms
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GavinTheMother
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VoyagerFilms:
It doesn't say anything about the right to collect and use rainwater in the Constitution. Why? Because no one could have possibly imagined a country so fucked up that someone could claim to own the rain.
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GavinTheMother
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Gillian_Marktoo
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GavinTheMother:
if it falls in your yard... it's yours. If it falls on mine...it's mine. if it falls on the street - it's all of ours and you should complain about how most of that is run out to sea in most coastal cities.
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Gillian_Marktoo
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Fishinflick
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In arid landscapes rainfall has to fall almost directly into watersheds to contribute to the overall supply. Here in the NE we have been so saturated recently that even a drizzle raises creeks, rainfall produces torrential white water, storms produce flooding. Seems to me in both cases collecting rainwater for household use is a good idea for the environment.
The history of violence in the West over water rights kind of makes you wonder how unlimited growth and development in arid land can avoid dispute. You also have to wonder how appropriate unlimited growth and development is in arid environments, especially the importance of maintaining a lawn in the scheme of things...
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Fishinflick
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Paratus
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I have rain barrels and a cistern. We use the water for the gardens. I guess I would be a criminal in Utah.
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Paratus
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BakedFresh
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Wow I hope my umbrella doesn't collect any water I don't want to end up in jail for stealing water...
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BakedFresh
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Itsbatman_Durr
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BakedFresh:
i would like to see how it works out in court when i sue the government for water damage to my home after a good rainfall, or say a hurricane
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Itsbatman_Durr
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Nabe8
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Itsbatman_Durr:
Exactly!!
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Nabe8
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eden49
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lol...good luck with policing that...
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eden49