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| Authored by: PJ on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 01:32 PM EDT |
| It's apparently real. But the facts are disputed, and the
judgment from the court was that
the guy lost. He claimed he was collecting
rainwater,
but the state said he was siphoning off water from
a stream that fed
into the city's water supply. The
issue was a 1925 water rights law.
There
are a lot of water laws out West, because there
isn't enough and people raise
livestock and crops and
so you find laws deciding who gets what. But
it's
nothing new. You perhaps know that when farmers and
cattle owners live
near each other, there is a lot
of fighting going on, so you find a lot of laws
out
West to try to settle disputes without folks killing each
other, which is
what they used to do.
Also, some land is bought without water rights,
which
belong to someone else. It's complicated, but
one thing is for sure -- it's not
about increasing
government control. These are old, old
laws, and this
particular case has been going on
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 02:19 PM EDT |
In Seattle, if you get too serious with your rain barrels,
they'll shut you down.
Out here in The West, we've been fighting over the water since
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 02:51 PM EDT |
| In the West, whisky is for drinking and water is for fighting. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, April 20 2013 @ 03:57 PM EDT |
So perhaps he should be charging the state for removing their snow from his
driveway. ;-)
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