Saving rain: How much is too much?.
Harvesting rain water is illegal? I think I am missing something here. If I collect water and use it to water my crops (which then flows into the ground or evaporates off), where is the harm? It’s not like a dam, if you really want to bring up a resource diversion with serious impacts.
Crazy.
The story could have been better written: the central issue is that the law is archaic and doesn’t reflect today’s reality (who in 1917 could have predicted how we live now?). I have 5 water barrels at my place and am re-doing how they are filled and drained: I don’t expect to be arrested for that. In fact, I suspect if more people did harvest water in some kind of containment system, we would have less street flooding in winter. It all flows downstream eventually . . .