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.
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Originally Posted by wehateporn
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  |
If that were true, why would having a well still be permissible?