re: #204 Killgore Trout
Inspired by Chairman Obama radical leftist speech today, I installed a rain barrel to one of my downspouts. I refuse to pay for capitalist water!
And until recently, some states made that criminal - you didn’t own the water that fell on your property - see Colorado.
In other words, that rain barrel, which was useful to keeping your lawn green, was diverting water already apportioned under various government agreements - because it fell into watersheds like the Colorado River.