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 This is not based on dusty old statutes ignored, but not yet repealed.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
Wait till they tax it like Maryland.
This Socialist gov.is out of control,they don’t own the environment that our Creator created,this & this present administration need to pray for their forceful iniquities !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
$#%&!@*, $#%&!@*, and $#%&!@* the government!
and they call us domestic terrorist…
Only in America does the government have nothing better to do than screw its people by saying they OWN the weather !
THEY DON’T OWN IT, SO HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE THE PEOPLE STAND UP AND PUT A STOP TO THIS CRIME AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
we may well own the rain, but the democrats will tax it and we will have to pay even more tax’s.
the same has happened in Oregon with farmers and ranchers collecting rain water and run off for recycling………
Totally and downright insane!
Government we own this we own that pay us for this $#%&!@* you murther $#%&!@*ers !!!! It’s time the people pull the heads out of the sand an do something or it’s gunna get much worst