• ricecake
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      1 year ago

      Rainwater collection laws in the US are based on conservation and fair allocation of a scarce resource.

      In places that don’t have scarcity, you actually have the opposite issue, where drainage might be restricted or mandated to prevent issues from harming your neighbors.

      I can’t build a dam on my property because it might flood my neighbor. People in the southwest can’t collect water at will because it might dry out their neighbors.

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        1 year ago

        means groundwater doesn’t get replenished.

        To then be extracted by greedy corporation.