Rain Water Rule

I don’t even… how do you prevent that?

What’s the usual way of stopping someone from collecting rain water?

Fines/violence, usually.

It’s actually not uncommon to have laws that restrict gathering rain water in many places. Lots of US states do as well. If water is collected locally on a mass scale, it messes with water tables/rivers/lakes/etc.

Forbidding it when a place doesnt have otherwise dependable water infastructure is inhuman however.

Guns and bombs usually do the trick

How are you gonna hide a water cistern?

It is useful to have lots of stupid laws. It makes people feel powerless and frustrated. It means the police can always find excuses to persecute you.

The technicalities of the individual laws are not important. It’s the psychological effect of the whole body of laws on a people.

It is useful to have lots of stupid laws. It makes people feel powerless and frustrated. It means the police can always find excuses to persecute you.

How many laws does the US have again?

Nothing in his comment says that the US is not an example of this strategy 🤔

Well an estimate from 2008 put it at upwards of 4,000 just as federal crimes. Not to even touch on state matters ,tax, civil affronts, etc.

If we don’t know the exact number, then it’s too high. Lol

The US does the same thing. People need to push back. Hard.

This isn’t as bad as it sounds. Water prevented from reaching the ground in watersheds means groundwater doesn’t get replenished. Now maybe a house here and there collecting rainwater isn’t a problem, but what about Nestle? The law should allow reasonable rainwater collection by individuals or family households while preventing theft of water from a region.

means groundwater doesn’t get replenished.

To then be extracted by greedy corporation.

Rainwater collection laws in the US are based on conservation and fair allocation of a scarce resource.

In places that don’t have scarcity, you actually have the opposite issue, where drainage might be restricted or mandated to prevent issues from harming your neighbors.

I can’t build a dam on my property because it might flood my neighbor. People in the southwest can’t collect water at will because it might dry out their neighbors.

The rain is scarce. But only 9.99$!

me, complaining about the Acceptable Use Policy I had to sign at work.

But hamas collect the water and then make bombs to attack for no specific reason.

Should have added /s at the end. [Differentiating intentions is really hard these days]

Water bombs. They launch kegs full of water to bankrupt Israel water companies.

What is water? H2O. What does the H stand for? Hydrogen. Ever heard of hydrogen bombs?

Still think Hamas (which is all Palestinians, UN officials, and doctors in hospitals, obviously) just want water do “drink” and “not die of dehydration”?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/027/2009/en/

pp. 2–4, 15, 28, 34, 39–50, 63, 68.

Great source! Phrased differently - can’t build a cistern without a permit - but they are certainly painted as right a-holes about it. Thanks for the source!

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