why couldn’t people collect rainwater in Colorado?
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Places ban rain water collection because of down stream impacts. Let’s say you have a farm you buy on a river. Now when you bought that farm the river played into the pricing because it has water for your crops. If someone up stream builds a dam and traps all the water for their farm you’d be pissed right? Cause they’re effectively denying you water you paid for when you purchased river side land. Collecting rain water is like a mini version of that. It doesn’t block all your water, but say I am a farmer and put out 100 barrels to collect rain water in a storm. If you live down stream some of that water I’m collecting would have entered the ground and found it’s way into the river and thus to you. I have effectively stopped you from receiving river water you are entitled to by putting out those barrels.
Now is it a bit dumb? Maybe. But in a very dry season you’d be pissed if rain finally came upstream and everyone collected it not allowing that rain to flow down to your farm that needs that water since it’s a dry season.
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