why couldn’t people collect rainwater in Colorado?
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Has to do with water being a managed natural resource, and water rights. A simple example – imagine a farmer who lives at the bottom of a mountain and he relies on the river getting a certain amount of water in it from rainfall and snowmelt to water his crops. But now people are collecting the rainwater, which affects the total amount of water in the river, which affects how effectively the farmer can water his crops.
So to prevent that some states put limits on how much water a person can collect and what type of systems they can use to collect water. It seems kind of strange, because the farmer might not have any sort of direct claim on the land where the water flows into the river, but still has some right to water usage.
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