[trichrider]

unconfirmed...report of taxing residents well water...Bainbridge Island

[resinryder]

In southern Nevada the state water engineer want to install meters, at the expense of home/well owners, on all private domestic wells. He wants to limit private well draws to .5 acre foot of water per year. If you use more than the .5 acre foot you pay a huge fine. Currently, private well owners are legally entitled to 2 acre foot per year for their use. It would be a very well estimated guess that 99% of well owners use way less than the .5 acre foot per year. But there are those of use that have livestock, gardens, etc and we still don't use the full 2 acre foot per year.
BUT---under their new meter plan, if you think you need more than the .5 acre foot they want to limit us to you can PURCHASE addition water in .5 acre foot increments from some new government agency. Go figure. The only reason they haven't done this yet is because private well owners have a law which declares they have the right to 2 acre foot and they haven't yet figured out how to get around it.
The water rights laws clearly state if you hold water rights it's a use it or loose it law. The State engineer will not call for proof of beneficial use. Why? Because he's sided with the large water rights holders, several of whom are large property developers with huge water rights, who have not provided proof of beneficial use in years. He will not take their water rights so it's easier to fuck the private well owner.

[DoubleTripleOG]

Originally Posted by Green Squall

My question is how would they even know if someone is collecting rain water in the first place? It's not like they can just walk onto your property and check for rain barrels attached to your gutters.

Same way they bust large illegal grows in California and other states, Google earth and satillites.

[shithawk420]

Fucking water rights.this literally makes me sick.this is absurd

[bombadil.360]

are you guys sure this is a fact? considering the sources for these "news", I'd doubt it.

And as Trout suggested already, some states will actually encourage you to collect your own water.

if you see "news" like these from "naturalnews" or "veteranstoday" you know it is most likely false or incidents taken way out of context to increase shock-value, and the gullible eat it right up.

just do a simple google search about about how legal it is to collect rain water in your area and you'll see that there are rules and regulations in some places due to past abuses.

There was some guy that dug channels and dams in his property to collect rain water, effectively cutting off the flow of water out of his property. So only this guy has rights to that water? what about the wild-life and natural ponds that depend on that flow of water?
so the dude got sent to jail for 30 days and fined and his dams had to go. Then people started saying collecting rain water was illegal LOL.... when in fact, rain collection systems to collect water from your roof or parking lot were not illegal at all, yet up to this day, people keep saying it is illegal.

[Snook]

if you saw the move: The Short, about the housing bubble collaps, the last screen of the move asks 'what do you see as the next bubble?' the answer was WATER.

sooner or later they figure out a way to tax it dearly or control it somehow... more important than oil!

[corky1968]

We're all gonna die. The lizards are drinking all the water.

[mojave green]

Originally Posted by bombadil.360

are you guys sure this is a fact? considering the sources for these "news", I'd doubt it.

And as Trout suggested already, some states will actually encourage you to collect your own water.

if you see "news" like these from "naturalnews" or "veteranstoday" you know it is most likely false or incidents taken way out of context to increase shock-value, and the gullible eat it right up.

just do a simple google search about about how legal it is to collect rain water in your area and you'll see that there are rules and regulations in some places due to past abuses.

There was some guy that dug channels and dams in his property to collect rain water, effectively cutting off the flow of water out of his property. So only this guy has rights to that water? what about the wild-life and natural ponds that depend on that flow of water?
so the dude got sent to jail for 30 days and fined and his dams had to go. Then people started saying collecting rain water was illegal LOL.... when in fact, rain collection systems to collect water from your roof or parking lot were not illegal at all, yet up to this day, people keep saying it is illegal.

We got alfalfa farmers sucking up large amounts from our aquifer.

[Green Squall]

Originally Posted by DoubleTripleOG

Same way they bust large illegal grows in California and other states, Google earth and satillites.

I can see that if someone had a large rain catchment system, but I was thinking more along the lines of a few barrels by the side of the house attached to the gutters. I'm no expert but I don't think that would show up on google earth.

[BOMBAYCAT]

What about the poor smelt fish. LOL