Alert observer Wayne M. sent me this disturbing article about the rain that falls on your roof, or at least the rain that falls on the rooves of houses in some American states.
Seems the Government is claiming the rain as their own.
"You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties because, according to officials, that rain belongs to someone else."
Read and weep (or at least recognise that it can happen.)
4 comments:
Gosh, we wil make a loony fringe-dwelling free man out of you yet, Mr G!
Well on my way already Shane!
(What with my well an all!)
It's interesting (though not surprising) that this has now spread to the USA. There was a 2003 documentary film (The Corporation) which documented the privatisation of the water supply in Bolivia's third largest city, which caused riots and looting and very nearly a revolution, basically for these reasons that people were being told they had to pay for water that fell out of the sky, or something to that effect. Wikipedia has more background (though I won't vouch for its credibility on this 'cos I don't know much about it myself).
I've heard people say that it's not only water that is subject to this 'management' technique, that is, make the freely available resourse unobtainable or off-limits to the ordinary person, so that you can control the sale of the same vital resource back to them. Wild foods, foragable and free are being, according to these people, removed from the landscape by various means (council bylaws, use of herbicides to keep roadsides clear etc.)
Sinister, if true.
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