National Treasure: Why Rainwater Collection Is Banned in America

The popular blogger Alexander Dyatlov reports in his publication an interesting fact: it turns out that rainwater is a national property in the United States. This means that it is not at all the property of the owner of the site or house, as in Russia, where summer residents collect it for watering their gardens, for example - in America and Canada, legislation does not allow collecting rainwater, and violators face a fine of one and a half thousand dollars plus 30 days prisons!

And this is not a joke: in 2017, one of the residents of Oregon paid such a fine and served this term for collecting water in three tanks dug on his site. Moreover, he did not pay attention to the warnings of his neighbors, since he was sure that according to the Constitution, everything that is on his land is his private property.

However, such a ban applies only in the driest states of the United States, since the authorities believe that no one should influence the public source of fresh water, it should be distributed and irrigate the land everywhere evenly, and access to rainwater that falls on private territory, only her the owner is a violation of the water rights of other citizens.

Such laws are introduced in the states:

- California (you can collect water there only under a license)

- Arkansas (domestic water collection systems in this state must be developed by a professional licensed engineer, and everything else is prohibited)

- Louisiana (here you can only collect water in a clean tank with a lid)

- Alaska (collecting can only be done on a special request and for a fee)

- Illinois. (collection is possible only for the generation of green energy with a special permit)...

And so on in several states. Moreover, the right to water in each of them belongs to various state institutions. And this has its own logic, because in an arid climate, collecting rainwater for personal purposes, for example, prevents rivers from being full, which means they violate the rights of those people who live near the river...