Making changes on your own property impacts other people's property. There isn't a conspiracy to prevent people from accumulating water. They want to prevent id

Making changes on your own property impacts other people's property. There isn't a conspiracy to prevent people from accumulating water. They want to prevent idiots from flooding their neighbors or completely cutting them off from water. https://wlos.com/news/local/news-13-help-desk-waynesville-man-builds-dam-on-neighbor-property-line-flooding-out-yard-civil-lawsuit-thousands-dollars-damages-barn-dead-chickens-concrete-wall https://wlos.com/news/local/news-13-help-desk-waynesville-ma... These types of laws formed when companies actually abused water rights and completely shut off access to anyone further downstream from them. Imagine a series of farms along a river. Then a mining company come along and sets up operation closer to the source. Since mining is very water intensive, they divert the river for their own uses cutting off access to the farms which used to depend on it. That's supposed to just be okay?