Collecting rainwater on your own property can now
lead to jail time, as proven by a man from Oregon who was sentenced to
prison for doing just that. Who owns the rain? The US government,
apparently so it seems.
Not
so long ago, it was common practice across much of the world to collect
rainwater into man made wells on your property to use for farming,
irrigation and having fresh clean water. It was just as common as
canning your own food, having knowledge of at least some basic survival
skills, and being self-sufficient.
It wasn’t even that many
generations ago that all of this was common practice – people born
before WWII were pretty adept at these skills, as they were a necessity
to survival. One of the main (and easiest) ways to ensure survival was
to collecting rainwater on your own property. The practical uses for
storing and collecting rainwater are numerous and many people across the
world in rural areas still do it today for all of the reasons listed
above. However, over the past few years, laws making the collection of
rainwater illegal have been causing an uproar across the US.
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