I’m not moving there, and I don’t plan on living my life with my pants pulled down and bent over with the government doing what it wants without a lubricant. It’s a choice you have evidently made.
Sheesh, and I thought California was supposed to be the place filled with idiots.
Several years ago during the drought the old hippies who seem to congregate around Durango were putting out rain barrels to water plants and for their annual bath. The state began to cite them and they howled like banshees. It did them no good as the law was ironclad.
Consider the plight of the poor people of Vail. Permits there are for household use only. Hottubs are not a household use. If you have a hottub the annual water use is calculated and you are responsible for replacing that number of gallons from a source outside of that watershed.
The Colorado River Compact allocates Colorado so many acre feet of Colorado River water. That water is pumped from the western slope to the cities of the eastern slope where it is needed.
To replace the water on the watersheds of the western slope hottub owners must drive to Denver and haul water from the eastern slope which has been piped from the western slope back over the divide and pour it on the ground on the western slope where it evaporates and falls as rain on the eastern slope. That's how tight Colorado water laws are.
I do not live in Colorado but the water laws of most western states are based on Colorado law and they are getting stricter and closer to Colorado law all the time. It is a matter of necessity.