I was so willing to go to jail for catching water on my roof and watering my garden,” said Tom Bartels, a video producer here in southwestern Colorado, who has been illegally watering his vegetables and fruit trees from tanks attached to his gutters. “But now I’m not a criminal.
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It’s Now Legal to Catch a Raindrop in Colorado - NYTimes.com i was just thinking about this earlier this morning, how irrational (or maybe supremely overbearing) it was that the state owned the water in my gutters. water rights are one of the biggest issues facing colorado and the states to whom it sells water, so i’m glad the state is finally sticking up for its citizens. (via hilker) Water Rights are anything but uniform in the United States. It’s one of those tricky property rights areas I wish I knew more about. |
