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Hang on, you want me to pay the local government for water under my land that they don't treat or pump for me? You're going to have to adjust some property laws
by tclancy 7y ago
Hang on, you want me to pay the local government for water under my land that they don't treat or pump for me? You're going to have to adjust some property laws in the US (and at least England and Canada I would guess) to do that.
- ip26 7y agoLook, it's not my pet project, I'm just pointing out that if we decided we needed to track groundwater usage for whatever reason- price, allocation, whatever- it could probably be reasonably done.
- Gibbon1 7y agoThere is no reason at all you can't put a meter on a well. None. Everything to do that exists.
- Scoundreller 7y agoI thought surface rights and water rights were already unbundled in a lot of US states. Rain barrels are/were illegal in a lot of US areas because you didn’t own the water that landed on your property.
- tclancy 7y agoWait, what now? Read that out loud and consider the idea that rain waters my lawn for free regardless of whether I have a barrel. Holy good God it’s not totally fabricated. https://www.truthorfiction.com/collecting-rainwater-is-illegal-in-some-states https://www.truthorfiction.com/collecting-rainwater-is-illeg...
- sitkack 7y agoBeneath your land is also a fiction, it takes hundreds of years to accumulate and stretches far beyond the boundaries of your land.
- Gibbon1 7y agoYeah your house and property sits above a subterranean _lake_. You can't just pull water out of a lake as you please. You shouldm't be able to pull out ground water as you please either.