Quote Originally Posted by mutt View Post
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.