Urban Danger

[Wulf202]

What? Screw them. I'll catch as much water as I want.

Yeah and if you want to get your blood warm look up how many states have made water filtration illegal. Then stop posting about potentially illegal activities.

[jerrymrc]

And they do look for such things. I got a letter once and all I had was a barrel near the downspout.

[mutt]

rain catchment systems of any type are illegal in colorado

They changed the law in 2009. You can collect rainwater with these restrictions:

• Harvesting takes place on residential property
• The owner of the property has a legal entitlement to a well
• No water is provided in the area by a water district or a municipality
• The roof is the only location collecting rainwater
• The collected rainwater is put to uses explicitly permitted in the well permit

IMHO any laws making rain water collection illegal are ridiculous, but such things happen in a society that tries to assign ownership rights to everything imaginable.

[Beprepared]

I live in the mountains on a community well system. When you move in the neighborhood they lay down the rules, but so long as you don't use too much water, they don't care. Septic system all goes back where it came so WTF. Not so much for urban, but suburban/rural you could make solar stills with a bunch of ground space. Course your competing with growing space. Could even plumb stills into tanks/barrels.

[Clint45]

Yeah and if you want to get your blood warm look up how many states have made water filtration illegal.

How can you ban water filters? That just blows my mind, especially with all the crap in municipal tap water.

First I've heard of such a thing. I heard that some places have banned bottled water and a few places have tried to ban salt based water softener systems, but I can't find any information on any states which have banned water filters. Have you got a link or a source?

[Wulf202]

How can you ban water filters? That just blows my mind, especially with all the crap in municipal tap water.

First I've heard of such a thing. I heard that some places have banned bottled water and a few places have tried to ban salt based water softener systems, but I can't find any information on any states which have banned water filters. Have you got a link or a source?

I know cali did, Iowa did also. Ironically just look up places that sell filters. The REI is a good place


http://remixxworld.blogspot.com/2010...er-filter.html

http://www.campmor.com/outdoor/gear/Product___87779
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[Wulf202]

They changed the law in 2009. You can collect rainwater with these restrictions:

• Harvesting takes place on residential property
• The owner of the property has a legal entitlement to a well
• No water is provided in the area by a water district or a municipality
• The roof is the only location collecting rainwater
• The collected rainwater is put to uses explicitly permitted in the well permit

IMHO any laws making rain water collection illegal are ridiculous, but such things happen in a society that tries to assign ownership rights to everything imaginable.

Thanks for the correction.

[KevDen2005]

And they do look for such things. I got a letter once and all I had was a barrel near the downspout.

Really? I heard that it was illegal but don't know why. I never heard of anyone looking for it and thought to myself that they probably didn't.

[KevDen2005]

And just to add, I did watch the movie. it was a little long and I thought it would go more into what the people did for a living, where they were located, etc. I also thought it would attempt to predict infrastructure collapses (which I think it would be cool for both entertainment as well as food for thought).

Otherwise a lot of cool ideas on there, not really sure that something like that is possible for me right now or in the immediate future.

[jerrymrc]

Really? I heard that it was illegal but don't know why. I never heard of anyone looking for it and thought to myself that they probably didn't.

Code enforcement is pretty strong around here. There is no HOA and we live in the county. I once got a letter about my vehicles in the driveway. I copied all the registrations and insurance cards and sent them back.