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In Colorado, Rain Barrels Are Illegal. Yup. » GroovyGreen.com — Reader Dane Elshof wrote me in response to some comments about how they collect water in Bermuda which I made on No Agenda to inform me that in Colorado the practice of even re-using water (you legally cannot recycle your own water) is against the law in Colorado and he suspects (I do too) that this is the case in most states. Meanwhile everyone bitches about droughts, lack of water and do what they can to jack up water rates. Scam, you think?
Colorado Water Law requires that precipitation fall to the ground, run off and into the river of the watershed where it fell. Because rights to water are legally allocated in this state, an individual may not capture and use water to which he/she does not have a right. We must remember also that rain barrels don’t help much in a drought because a drought by its very nature supplies little in the way of snow or rain.
Additionally, any and all water that comes from tap may only be used once. “Denver water customers are not permitted to take their bath or laundry water (commonly referred to as gray water) and dump it on their outdoor plants or garden.” Even if that said water is ecologically-friendly?
A bottle discarded at a waste site in the US contains the oldest sample of bomb-grade plutonium made in a nuclear reactor, scientists say. The sample dates to 1944 and is a relic from the infancy of the US nuclear weapons programme.
