collecting rainwater unlawful in some states..

[Indaswamp]

I find this absurd. We collect rainwater at our camps here in louisiana for use cleaning dishes and taking showers. (which reminds me that I need to repair our cistern soon...)
http://www.naturalnews.com/029286_rainwater_collection_water.html

[goodkarmarising]

Glad to see we are still free

[daffy...]

wow!

[HNTFSH]

This could absolutely devastate or bolster the Plond business. We'll see how it washes out.

[Indaswamp]

This could absolutely devastate or bolster the Plond business. We'll see how it washes out.

[Force Fetch]

There is a big battle brewing in western Montana over this same thing. The "greens" want to collect it for their new constuction and the "down stream water rights" people are up in arms.
Now on the east side, dry land farms and ranches have been collecting rain water for a hundred years and it is the only way most of these farms have grown trees,watered livestock, etc. and it isn't given a thought.
It seems to be a bigger deal where streams and rivers take the rainfall through many lands as in western MT. Eastern MT,other than a few large rivers and year round streams, most rainfall stays where it falls or in a cistern.

[daffy...]

There is a big battle brewing in western Montana over this same thing. The "greens" want to collect it for their new constuction and the "down stream water rights" people are up in arms.
Now on the east side, dry land farms and ranches have been collecting rain water for a hundred years and it is the only way most of these farms have grown trees,watered livestock, etc. and it isn't given a thought.
It seems to be a bigger deal where streams and rivers take the rainfall through many lands as in western MT. Eastern MT,other than a few large rivers and year round streams, most rainfall stays where it falls or in a cistern.

i think its more of, well if everyone collects there own water. theres no business for bottled water and town water bill

[Force Fetch]

Never thought of it like that.

[bayouboy]

This could absolutely devastate or bolster the Plond business. We'll see how it washes out.

[blackduckdog2]

This could absolutely devastate or bolster the Plond business. We'll see how it washes out.

[blackduckdog2]

This is like something out of an old western............ Here in Wa. (like someone said above) they had to change a really old law to allow rainwater collection. The old law covered the entire state, including the wet west side. I don't know for sure, but I'll bet that what prompted enactment of the old law was dry, EAST side concerns. Anyway, I don't really see this as a freedom/tyranny issue. Mostly a case of laws catching up to current needs

[swampbilly 1980]

Aww Gawd!,..the next thing you know it'll be the air you breathe

[MacMan]

Aww Gawd!,..the next thing you know it'll be the air you breathe

They are trying to push for taxing our air Swamp - Cap and Trade is all about CO2 emissions - last time I checked C02 is what we humans exhale.

For sake of calculations, we must assume that every molecule of Oxygen inhaled and metabolized by your body produces one molecule of CO2. By mass ratio, this is 44 grams CO2 per 32 grams O2. Volumetrically, this is 44 grams for every 22.4 liters (1 mole gas at STP) of pure oxygen.

With the assumption that an AVERAGE lung capacity is approximately 1 liter (my lung capacity is approximately 2 liters, measured while I was in the Navy, in a preliminary examination I took for working with asbestos), and if we assume that an average person could hold his/her breath for 1 minute and utilize 50% of the O2 in that breath, at rest, such that it represents the normal average oxygen consumption by that individual, we can calculate the total CO2 production as follows:
1 liter air
* (1440 minutes/day)
* (1/22.4 liters/mole)
* (0.209 moles O2/mole air)
* 1/2 (50% utilization)
* 1 mole CO2 per mole O2
* 44 grams / mole CO2
= ~300 grams CO2 per person per day

At 2.2 lbs per KG, that's equal to 0.66 lbs per day.

And is taxable as such!!