People take it to the logical extreme by converting large tracts in water catching systems. Not an issue if a few do it but it usually isn’t just a few. It starts depleting aquifers and rivers, causing damage to the ecosystem and communities down the way. Doesn’t even need to be water scarce areas either.
Okay so let’s say a million acres get turned into above ground kiddie pools. These people collect and store as much water as they can, so it’s like a million acres times day ten feet deep.
How much of an effect is that water going to have on the surrounding hydrology, being trapped on those properties?
Well, it would amount to about 224 days of average flow of the Colorado River in a given year. So that would probably affect things quite a bit.
It’s not sanitary, depletes water tables under the earth that naturally filter water as it sinks through the soil, and is not efficient for collection if servicing a large population.
OP is simply spreading pro Hamas propaganda
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According to the Anything Goes Act of 2022, you are allowed to say whatever horseshit you want and it is a legit argument.
Candy bars? Nuclear death sticks from planet Zorb
Want fries with that? You’re an antisemite. That’ll be $5.87
Collecting rainwater? You’re a Hamas agent and everybody knows it
Hamas is only in Gaza. This is a West Bank thing where the Israeli government imposing it’s own civil laws is a war crime.
So what’s the reasoning for why Isreal gets to impose that policy on Palestinians?
Who knows? Maybe someone should ask the Israeli government instead of assuming without facts.
If you ask me, I think it’s to control where people can drink safe quality water so they can spend less money on humanitarian aid curing easily preventable stagnating water-bourne diseases and shift that same money over to war production against Hamas instead.
I think Hamas wants Israel to stretch its defense budget as thin as possible by deliberately creating humanitarian disasters in Gaza so that Israel can’t spend it on military equipment against Hamas.