> Its so strange to think of rainwater collection as illegal
If you take a few gallons, it's fine. If you and 10,000 other people take a few gallons, that a problem. So we need to regulate it a little.
If you take a few gallons, it's fine. If you and 10,000 other people take a few gallons, that a problem. So we need to regulate it a little.
If you use it, you keep the first rain waters of the season diverted to allow for roof cleaning, then you set the pipes to store the water during all the winter.
You also have to keep some control of water quality. The traditional method is throwing a lime stone in to the cistern to kill the patogens.
The challenge is that people invest their money and lives (building businesses) on the fact that they have these water rights so it’s hard to change without creating high emotions on both sides (“water is a human right” vs the primacy of property rights)