Sucks for you dry weather states.

god?

keylock71: never realized it was illegal in some states.

It seems to be mostly a phenomenon in those Western states where people try to grow grass in a desert or where the rivers flow into those Western states where people try to grow grass in a desert.

Around here, we're encouraged to place rain barrels to slow the inundation of our storm water systems.

Subtardmitter: Now? Hasn't it been this way for like ever?

Or is this another of the many "I am so pissed at Obama for something that started way before he is president!" Obama time machine things?

Interesting.


Brendan McCormick says
09 December 11, 6:10pm

That is because you have to get your dose of toxic fluoride.
VA:F [1.9.11_1134]


Yeah, that seems like a reliable website. Not.

keylock71: Heh... Been doing this for years and use the water for my garden. never realized it was illegal in some states.

That's what confuses me.

If I do a rainwater collection thing it is going to be used to water my garden.

Where it goes into the ground (and the plants).

Where it would've gone anyway.

"Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over"

They'll take my stored rainwater from my cold, dead hands.

/come at me govt

keylock71: Heh... Been doing this for years and use the water for my garden. never realized it was illegal in some states. Don't think it's an issue here in MA, though.

Whoever owns that site needs a slap in the head for all the white on black text, too.

Nah out east they will even pay for rain barrels as it decreases the load on the storm sewer system and prevents runoff pollution. I got free rain barrels in pittsburgh.

Didn't Cheney and Hallibutron try this in South America? And weren't they finally run out by angry farmers? I mean, the website is run by a "kooky conspiracist", but what he's talking about is real.

Dude, this is old news. Old as in 19th Century. It has to do with water rights since water wasn't easy to find in the West.

The_Homeless_Guy: I got free rain barrels in pittsburgh.

9 Mile Run watershed?

Not even clicking the link, but Japan's own the 'nuclear power plant radioactive fallout' that is now in your milk.

/Japan's hidden tax on your milk is now at 23 cents.
//Just like that 3 cent tax on your food stuff's to have some Rabbi to drive by the plant and bless it for da jews religious consumption of it.

In Arizona I worked on a couple of store designs where it was required that all rainwater be diverted off the site. It was not legal to have pits to collect the stormwater and let it drain naturally back into the ground.

It sucked for the civil engineer but that's his problem.

FARK them, I collect 500 gal for my garden, they'll have to pry my cold dead hands from my hose.

farked?

/ got a 500 getting the 500 so apache could error while it errors

Link is farked already. Site must be totally legit.

I'm pretty sure I'm safe, because around here rain barrels are government-subsidized to encourage their use.

Of course, many municipalities also have watering restrictions during periods of high temperatures and low rainfall... makes those barrels much more useful.

But swimming pools are still OK, right?

I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the rain he collects? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.'

Because People in power are Stupid: No hyperbole here.

"Fight back against enslavement"


If the person targeted by law enforcement repeatedly decided to keep the water that fell from the sky they would eventually end up in a cage.
But I guess if they weren't forced to work while caged it wouldn't technically be enslavement, so well done on your observation.

Some day "lawns" will just be too damn expensive. And the water problem will largely solve itself.

yanoosh: FARK them, I collect 500 gal for my garden, they'll have to pry my cold dead hands from my hose.

Geez, have some self control, you pervert!

Eddie Adams from Torrance: [i236.photobucket.com image 314x244]

Does not approve.

god i love that movie

Spade: keylock71: Heh... Been doing this for years and use the water for my garden. never realized it was illegal in some states.

That's what confuses me.

If I do a rainwater collection thing it is going to be used to water my garden.

Where it goes into the ground (and the plants).

Where it would've gone anyway.

It's because you're slowing the infiltration. In hard rain events, the ground gets quickly saturated, water flows more quickly to the streams/rivers and doesn't soak in. If you retain it, you're letting it soak into the ground gradually over time and not make it to the river.

I had heard of this in Colorado. I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually measure the impact of people collecting rainwater in barrels, but I doubt it's enough to measurably affect stream flows.

That being said, if the practice became widespread enough, it could reduce the amount of water flowing in certain rivers and streams, which would affect people who have rights to divert water.

StreetlightInTheGhetto: I work for a fairly reasonable environmental non-profit, and about every week we get a suggestion to focus on fluoridation in the water. We file that suggestion under "infrastructure" and leave it at that.

You sound fluoridated.

1. Link is dead.
2. That USED to be law in Colorado but they lifted it.

The article's full of stupidity.

For example, in Washington, the Department of Ecology expressly indicated that a water right is not required for rooftop rainwater harvesting, and that, once collected, there are no limitations on its use. The Department of Ecology retains the right to review rainwater collection if large-scale collection and sequestration significantly impacts the environment - read "corporations hoarding water."

I live in Washington. I have six rainwater barrels, the designs of which were provided by the goddamned state itself in a pamphlet, that I use for watering my lawn & garden.

The author's a moron.

Jake Havechek: Brendan McCormick says
09 December 11, 6:10pm

That is because you have to get your dose of toxic fluoride.
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Yeah, that seems like a reliable website. Not.

Judging a website based on the intelligence displayed by those leaving comments may not be the best idea.

/just sayin...

Funny, here in PA, there are active initiatives to help get people to collect rainwater for garden use, the idea being that it's cheaper and better for the environment than using treated muni water.

Not that we have a shortage of water, but that's one of the up-sides of not living in a semi-arid or desert climate.

ringersol: Some day "lawns" will just be too damn expensive. And the water problem will largely solve itself.

Most useless "crop" in the world.

Corvus: Subtardmitter: Now? Hasn't it been this way for like ever?
Or is this another of the many "I am so pissed at Obama for something that started way before he is president!" Obama time machine things?

Bah. If I want to collect rainwater in my dry western state, I'll do it and nobody would say a word about it.

FormlessOne: The author's a moron


The author found something via Google, didn't read it properly, made some false assumptions, then went all apeshiat over it.

What's his FARK handle?

It's called water rights management, and if you're from Colorado (or any BLM-managed lands), you know that when you buy a property, you're only deeded rights to the first 6-10 feet of topsoil. Whatever lies below that can be sold to somebody else. That underground aquifer? Not yours. That vein of gold/coal/natural gas/strontium/uranium/etc? Not even remotely yours.

FTA: "Internal Server Error"

Your blog is anemic, and sucks.

You can keep all the rainwater ya want here in old Floridee

Anyone ever heard of watershed management plans? You cant just start collecting rain water for personal or commercial use. It doesn't belong to you. I cannot belong to you. It belongs to everyone.

Subby fails.