Taxes, Permits, and Red Tape are hallmarks of government control over citizens that many people take for granted, but at least we’re free to breathe the air and feel the rain on our faces. Or so you might think. In Utah and other states like Washington and Colorado, you’d be wrong.
In those states, it’s illegal to divert rainwater without a permit and local governments are enforcing the law. This is not based on dusty old statutes ignored, but not yet repealed. The news video below tells the story of a Toyota dealer who installed a system to catch rain from the roof of his business with plans to use it to wash cars. Astonishingly, he discovered he was breaking the law!
It’s all about control, really.
As long as people remain unaware and uninformed about important issues, the government will continue to chip away at the freedoms we enjoy. The only reason these water restrictions are finally starting to change for the better is because people started to notice and they worked to do something to reverse the law.
Even though these laws restricting water collection have been on the books for more than 100 years in some cases, they’re slowly being reversed thanks to efforts by citizens who have decided that enough is enough.
Until then, Stay Thirsty, America.
Source: Healthy Debates
Photo: TaranRampersad on Flickr
Here in Colorado you can’t collect the water and they also charge you a tax for the size of your roof that’s added to your property tax. Why? Because your roof blocks the water from hitting the ground! And causes more runoff and erosion. Yep its total BS. So they tax you for something they don’t own and didn’t sell to you? WTF
our government needs to be put in a nut house and out of the white house now
This is totally out of control.
I googled this and it is true, how insane is this, the rain belongs to God, not govt. no wonder some areas are in drought, God doesn’t want govt. keeping what is not rightfully theirs. sheesh
The government has come up with some stupid ideas but this one is the worst!
You people are stupid they arent trying to control people they said themselves its just an old law that they do not enforce. Stupid sites like this just try to stir up trouble and use u the under educated to do so because they know they can say what ever they want or twist things because u people are too ignorant to even listen to what was said in the video, retards lol
Not in Florida land owners own their land everything above their land and below the surface of their land
God created & owns the rain u govn. morons!
This is worse than any Communist country that I know of, even N.Korea doesn’t stop you for making use of rain water!
UNBELIEVEABLE!!!