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    it's now legal to catch raindrops in colorado I find this mind boggling. Here in Australia we've always had rainwater tanks and been encouraged to use them. But then, I'm also amazed that most Americans do not use outdoor clothes lines to dry their laundry in the... more

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  • Rated by bec-hi on Jun 29, 8:25pm

    interesting blog on water rights
  • Rated by OliviaB on Jun 29, 8:07pm

    it's now legal to catch raindrops in colorado I find this mind boggling. Here in Australia we've always had rainwater tanks and been encouraged to use them. But then, I'm also amazed that most Americans do not use outdoor clothes lines to dry their laundry in the sun. "Who owns the sky, anyway? In most of the country, that is a question for philosophy class or bad poetry. In the West, lawyers parse it with straight faces and serious intent. The result, especially stark here in the Four Corners area of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, is a crazy quilt of rules and regulations -- and an entire subculture of people like Mr. Bartels who have been using the rain nature provided but laws forbade. The two Colorado laws allow perhaps a quarter-million residents with private wells to begin rainwater harvesting, as well as the setting up of a pilot program for larger scale rain-catching."
  • Rated by skyxavier on Jun 29, 7:38am

    Rain water storing legal now in Colorado!