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I agree with you on this one! Government needs to focus on anti-trust and getting jobs back here in America...
And science and education and infrastructure and R&D....
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I agree with you on this one! Government needs to focus on anti-trust and getting jobs back here in America...
Sorry if it comes out of the sky and it lands on your property , it should be yours to use . How does any government think this is OK..
Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Property Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Property...
Yet Paul admitted the 1925 law does apply because, he said, Harrington constructed dams to block a tributary to the Big Butte, which Medford uses for its water supply.
“There are dams across channels, water channels where the water would normally flow if it were not for the dam and so those dams are stopping the water from flowing in the channel and storing it- holding it so it cannot flow downstream,” Paul told CNSNews.com.
Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Property...
But ,but they read it on the internet so it must be true! I just don't understand why folks don't do a little fact checking. I plugged the name and town and got the Snopes read on the "tragic story" in one shot!oh dear God, people need to learn to read, and comprehend what they read.... he was damming water from streams that flowed through many properties and diverting the streams water to his own lake reservoirs.
Sorry if it comes out of the sky and it lands on your property , it should be yours to use . How does any government think this is OK..
Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Property Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Property...
I agree with you on this one! Government needs to focus on anti-trust and getting jobs back here in America...
And science and education and infrastructure and R&D....
I've seen this in other countries as well. The UN needs to declare water a human right. Jesus H what the hell.
I've seen this in other countries as well. The UN needs to declare water a human right. Jesus H what the hell.
Are you commenting before or after reading the entire article?
I've seen this in other countries as well. The UN needs to declare water a human right. Jesus H what the hell.
Are you commenting before or after reading the entire article?
Before. I should have specified rain water.
It does look like he was charged with damming water sources the city uses. In this case if he did that then he deserves the jail time.
Rain water should be legal for anyone to collect. No government has jurisdiction over the rain. If they do they shouldn't.
Do those property rights counter the state's interest in bringing the water where it's needed?
Do those property rights counter the state's interest in bringing the water where it's needed?
If eminent domain means anything, no. That's everyone's drinking water. In my opinion this would be the proper use of eminent domain. You own your property, not the water going through it. It would be selfish to take the water from everyone else.
Do those property rights counter the state's interest in bringing the water where it's needed?
If eminent domain means anything, no. That's everyone's drinking water. In my opinion this would be the proper use of eminent domain. You own your property, not the water going through it. It would be selfish to take the water from everyone else.
That's the idea behind the laws in the OP.
I've seen this in other countries as well. The UN needs to declare water a human right. Jesus H what the hell.
Are you commenting before or after reading the entire article?
Before. I should have specified rain water.
It does look like he was charged with damming water sources the city uses. In this case if he did that then he deserves the jail time.
Rain water should be legal for anyone to collect. No government has jurisdiction over the rain. If they do they shouldn't.
Let me put forward a hypothetical.
The City of San Francisco gets almost all of it's drinking water from the Hetch Hetchey reservoir in Yosemite. It collects rain water and snowmelt, and the water is then sent through 170 miles of pipes and aqueducts to reach my shower.
What if someone owned that land, and decided that they wanted to keep all the water that fell there, and the snow that melted there?
Do those property rights counter the state's interest in bringing the water where it's needed?