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Who owns the rain or is it illegal to harvest rainwater?
The Los-Angeles Times has a interesting write up about water rights in Colorado: Every time it rains here, Kris Holstrom knowingly breaks the law. Holstrom’s violation is the fancifully painted 55-gallon buckets underneath the gutters of her farmhouse on a mesa 15 miles from the resort town of Telluride. The barrels catch rain and snowmelt, [...]
