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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Those who made and back the law want the water to drain off your roof and into the ground, correct? What about those who extend their rain gutters and reroute some of the water into their garden? It's still the ground, after all, is it not? If drought condition worsened and it meant dying of thirst or collecting and filtering rain water, what then?
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The smart ones will collect rain water anyway, the dumb ones will follow the law to the letter and die of thirst. I call that natural selection.
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Yes, people in general, are stupid. Not all, but many. But so far, from what I know of it, the millions in N America who currently collect rain water in barrels do it quite smartly, and mainly for conservation purposes. You know, the whole "go green" effort going on in recent times? I've heard of exactly zero cases of private rainwater collection causing any outbreaks, germs, etc.Some in certain areas do forget to keep their barrels properly covered I suppose, which causes increases in mosquito populations. I've heard of nothing more serious than that though.
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If they don't collect water, they might die.
If they do collect water badly and spread disease I might die.
One of those matters more to me than the other.
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Your gas/generators/apartments example is of course pure lunacy, but we're talking water rights here, thus I tend to think your objections are a bit extreme.
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My example actually did happen.... That makes it very far from being an extreme objection. It is in fact a case study of what idiots do when you give them an empty container with no regulations.
If people want to store water, great. Make sure they have to notify the town they are doing it, have their rain system inspected by a heath official on installation and once a year afterward. Fine the fuck out of anyone not following best practices. There are ways to allow what you want... but the default should be "No, because you might be too stupid and until we see exactly what you have in mind you are more of a risk than we care to enable."
