Isn’t that normally for water that has landed on the ground rather than on your own roof? What if you just dug some trenches to collect the rainwater in the land it just happens to collect in a natural pond
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sunnie@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Check your local regulations also. In some localities, diverting and collecting rainwater is not legal. Some places where it isn’t legal have exceptions for irrigation though.
Just be aware before spending a lot of time and money on a project.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago Maryland had talked about making our illegal to collect any rainwater, be it from your roof or anywhere else. I no longer live there so I never kept up with it.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I am not collecting the water, it just happens to have flooded that part of my garden. “Land of the free” and you can’t even leave an open container outside if its raining?
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And these laws are FUCKING RIDICULOUS.
Usually they are there to make sure the (storm water or mixed) sewerage systems get properly flushed. It’s not a ridiculous as it sounds at first.
JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
And yet they allow corporations to relentlessly pillage all water sources going 2-3x their paid water rights while the populations eat the costs and effects…
It is all excuses to increase water insecurity.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I understand some of the reasoning behind it, but it doesn’t logically make much sense in the end, as if you collect rainwater, you’re eventually going to return it later…
glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The water cycle ends with me.
livligkinkajou@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I think that might be mostly from inherited old regulations/infrastructure, as most modern policies revolve around having separate storm water and sewage system for the opposite reason, as they don’t want all the extra rain water overflowing the sewage treatment systems