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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I didn't read it :P
It's just common sense to me.
You cannot overuse water (riparian rights) on your own property. Colorado law includes the sky rainfall also apparently.
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I'll help you out. The counterpoint to yours appears in this portion of the article,
I even highlighted it. :D
“Water allocation doesn’t satisfy most people’s norms of fairness,” said Doug Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School. “A lot of people are clearly surprised to see that it’s a system where some people will get 100 percent of their water, and others will get zero.”
In Colorado, the rain barrel idea was modest: A bill with bipartisan support would allow homeowners to buy two 55-gallon water tanks that, together, would be able to collect about 650 gallons every year — just about what an average American uses in a week.
A few years ago, laws were passed that exempted a small number of people from the rule against barrels — for example, some who are not served by municipal water systems — but legislators wanted to allow everyone with a barrel to collect and use what poured off their roof.
The biggest newspapers in the state got behind the idea, as did several city governments and water officials. Conservation groups said it would cost nothing to carry out and would not take any water out of the streams and rivers that supply users downstream. Most rain soaks into the ground or simply evaporates, long before it can cascade into a storm drain and toward any parched ranch or farmer’s irrigation ditch.
I would tend to agree with that last part.
Frankly I don't see what the fuss would be about anyway. If somone wants to collect rainwater that would end up soaking into their yard anyway, and then attach their garden hose to a spout at the bottom of their barrel and use the water to water their lawn, garden, etc... it's ending up soaking into the damn ground either way.
The law is bonkers.