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There are a couple of states (think Colorado is one) that prohibit collecting rainwater as it is a violation of someones water right....

Seems that there are claims to ALL water (rain, hail, snow, etc) as belonging to someone downstream with senior water rights.

If you want to see a real morass of legislation, rules, regulations, and litigation, start reviewing the western water rights issues.


>>>*Yep! I ran into the same thing here in Oregon. I had plans to build a simple little hydro project and I was ready to start doing it. Then I read the post on another thread here about checking on the regulations first.

*EB don't do prison well, it would make me crabby.

It seems that the STATE owns the rain, all water, with claims to own ALL submersible lands. This granted when Oregon became a State in 1859.

But... We have an abstract that describes our property, granted by the territory long BEFORE Oregon became a State and it says WE own all the submersible lands and rights to the water?

I was looking at that, it appears that tapping our own spring for water to our house is actually retroactively illegal according to current laws...What they want is for use to pay the State a fee to use our own resource..

The truth is that we own nothing, we just rent it from the State it seems.....*EB

*Beats the he** outa me!....*LOL**...