Colorado used to disallow collection of rainwater too because people further down the line supposedly had the rights to that water.
You’re now allowed something like 2 - 30 gallon barrels to collect it here now.
Did you knew that? [This is on Next Level]
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scottywh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Late stage capitalism: where they decide someone owns the fucking rain.
scottywh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, I mean, it isn’t entirely illogical… If I lived somewhere that always got approximately the same amount of water year of year but then suddenly my neighbor started straight up “stealing it all” straight out of the sky I might would be pissed too.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sometimes you have to think about broad impact when developing policy. Sure, laws against rain collection seem draconian on the individual scale, but if a large percentage of the population collected rainwater, reservoirs and water tables can be seriously affected. Not saying this specific Israeli action is justified, but there are valid limitations on water collection put in place to ensure everyone has access.
It would be substantially worse if there were no such limitations in place, and whoever owned the land that drained into communal reservoirs could privately control the water supply of a region.
Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Everything I dislike is late stage capitalism, and I dislike anything I don’t understand”
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Its gods water
3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 11 months ago
It’s illegal or highly fined in a lot of other countries as well. (Especially during dry seasons)
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In other countries they don’t cut you off from water infrastructure either though. Context is important.
S_204@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Israel provides 13% of water. Hamas is responsible for the rest. They just build bombs with the water pipes instead.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
(copied from other comment)
That’s atrocious. In your own property, no one else is going to collect it. That’s different from maing huge pipes and drainage systems over the city, just collecting what would otherwise be on your driveway or patio.
acutfjg@feddit.nl 11 months ago
The earth collects the water where it eventually ends up back in the water table.
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fuck the Israeli government 100%, but it’s illegal to collect rainwater in certain US cities, too.
Leyla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But nobody restricts your regular water supply to less than half of what is considered the bare minimum by the UN.
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But that’s not what’s highlighted in your meme.
Be angry at the right things. As long as they keep convincing us to be angry at scarecrows the status quo won’t change.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 11 months ago
Well it’s not like Mexico is forbidding the US from collecting.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Damn what are they going to do, steal my buckets? Did you know it’s possible to make a diy bucket my melting down ar-15s? There’s also the dark net.
yenahmik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s illegal pretty much anywhere west of the Mississippi River if I recall correctly.
badbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Very little good about Israel these days.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Same for a lot of places.
Israel wouldn’t bother enforcing it when they can just blow up your house and say you’re Hamas.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
this is also the law in Los Angeles, for what its worth.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In Los Angeles foreigners don’t break your access to water infrastructure and call the army on you when you attempt to fix it.
S_204@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LA county doesn’t divert the money and materials slated for water treatment plants on bombs and rockets like Hamas does either which is super helpful in getting water to citizens.
timetravelingnoodles@kbin.social 11 months ago
It is here in Texas too…
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The rain in Texas belongs to Israel authorities?
Instigate@aussie.zone 11 months ago
That’s so strange to me. Living in Australia, we face very similar periodic drought conditions that California faces as well. Rather than being discouraged from capturing rainwater to use, we’re actively encouraged to do so, with many governments previously offering subsidies for rainwater tanks particularly during drought times. We have specific colourings for rainwater taps (purple) and you can buy signs to put up in your yard that say that you use rainwater, so people don’t get mad if you’re watering your lawn. These subsidies were usually alongside heavy water restrictions including not being able to water lawns; not watering plants during daylight hours; not using a hose to wash your car (a pressure washer from a bucket is allowed) etc.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s atrocious. In your own property, no one else is going to collect it. That’s different from maing huge pipes and drainage systems over the city, just collecting what would otherwise be on your driveway or patio.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
are you fucking kidding me?
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hope domestic needs includes drinking.
Please don’t drink rain water. It’s not safe for human consumption. Plants will be ok, you will not be.
mlg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean… you know we have filtration technology right?
You don’t drink raw water out of an unclear well or even clear river either bruh
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I slurp it straight out of the gutter, leaves and all.
Cometely unrelated but something is wriggling inside my eyeball.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Of course.
How many people in Gaza right now have access to a reverse osmosis filter?
venoft@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Of course it is safe. It can contain dust and other particles (nowadays mainly some PFAS), but rainwater itself is quite safe.
Of course if you collect it from your gutters it’s probably dirty from the crap on your roof.
Ab_intra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Prunebutt@feddit.de 11 months ago
Shit happened to jewish people. Israel is made up of zionists.
It’s an important distinction, which zionists want us to ignore.
Leyla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Agreed. People like Norman Finkelstein make the distinction obvious