Thread: Wait...so...collecting RAINWATER is ILLEGAL??

Originally Posted by Xei

According to the tacit logic here it follows that it's okay to put as much CO2 as you want back into the atmosphere, correct?


Okay, so if I own that stretch of the river I can take all of it and sell it to the people downstream?

No. if you own a piece of land with a river on it, according to purely lassiez faire rules (and not actual legislation) you can do whatever you want to the water while it's passing through your property but before it flows in or after it flows out, you can't act upon it.

We have regulations in place to prevent people from harming the ecosystem by fucking with water that flows onto their property. But we don't prevent people from collecting the water that flows onto their property. Much the same way, can we prevent people from doing what they like with water that falls from above?

It's no longer an environmental issues if they're just collecting water that falls from the sky. It's a scarcity issue. Water is precious, it must be contained and price-tagged so the elite can get their fair share.