On Rainwater Collection

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podrock — 10/8/2012 12:31:42 AM (archived)

Water rights in the arid west have always been a very complicated issue as every drop is sacred. It is still illegal to collect rainwater in many westerns states.

Some links:

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/18/nation/na-contested-rainwater18

http://water.state.co.us/SURFACEWATER/SWRIGHTS/Pages/RainwaterGraywater.aspx

http://www.naturalnews.com/029286_rainwater_collection_water.html

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Implications of the Conservative philosophy. - bowser - 10/7/2012 9:22:10 PM
- Seriously?. - RobVG - 10/9/2012 3:07:38 PM
  - I asked you before to check the numbers against TBs characterizations. - bowser - 10/9/2012 10:19:26 PM
    - I didn't read Tom. - RobVG - 10/10/2012 12:32:00 AM
      - Well, he called me "demented". Or something like that. - bowser - 10/10/2012 4:43:21 AM
        
        I've seen this before. - RobVG - 10/10/2012 2:07:41 PM
      - This election is about saving $500k? I can't believe there are people so loopy they care about something so small and silly. - alcaray - 10/10/2012 1:40:37 AM
        
        I give up. n/t - RobVG - 10/10/2012 2:10:49 AM
        
        I guess I don't need this. - alcaray - 10/10/2012 4:45:31 AM
        
        PBS funding is $445 million, not 500k. n/t - RobVG - 10/10/2012 2:05:58 PM
        
        Like pushing a rope, isn't it? - TB - 10/10/2012 2:34:08 AM
    - MIght not be a bad idea to actually finish reading the article you linked. - TB - 10/9/2012 10:49:56 PM
  - The ironic part... - TB - 10/9/2012 5:42:06 PM
- It sure smells like it. - Lindy - 10/9/2012 5:24:05 AM
- You're clearly still living in the BDS era... - SDAI-Tech - 10/8/2012 3:12:58 AM
  - Where clearly we've moved on to the ODS era. - alcaray - 10/8/2012 4:52:16 AM
- On Rainwater Collection - podrock - 10/8/2012 12:31:42 AM
  - The difference is the common good vs. Bechtel profits. - bowser - 10/8/2012 12:44:16 AM
- Pure fiction. n/t - RobVG - 10/7/2012 10:44:28 PM
  - OK. There's a choice below. The numbers, or TBs characterizations. - bowser - 10/8/2012 6:18:23 PM
  - Which part? Take the first, if you would. - bowser - 10/8/2012 12:29:50 AM
    - More steaming dementia than fiction. - TB - 10/8/2012 1:37:07 AM
      - WSJ - "80% of the nation’s wealth gains between 1983 and 2009 went to the wealthiest top 5%." - bowser - 10/8/2012 4:15:09 AM
        
        Most of that article describes how the study cooked the numbers. - TB - 10/8/2012 4:27:35 AM
        
        Sad try. "Selective timeframe" - 1983 to 2009. Willful ignorance, TB - bowser - 10/8/2012 5:11:32 AM

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