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Wow, great to see a government encouraging it instead of saying you can’t do it! I’m also right next to the Rockies just far south of you in Colorado, and we get very different messages.

It is weird. Like if every house had 200 gallons of storage, that could add up to a small dam’s worth of storage at almost no cost to the government. It makes more sense to me to encourage houses to store it.

It really might come back around to blame capitalism - since like 90% of water is used for agriculture here maybe the downstream money makers are the ones yelling the loudest.

Water rights in the Western US are wild. I wrote a small rant above if you’re interested. There is very legitimately not enough fresh water to go around from rivers like the Colorado to support continued agriculture and population expansion. (I blame agriculture 10x more than population, but that’s my hot take)

store the rainwater for use later.

And then there are even further rules on storing water in some places - in Colorado I’m only allowed ~100 gallons of rainwater collection storage because someone else owns the water rights to the land my house is on.