Forget it, Jake!
Who owns under-property water rights in California? If the answer is the state or county, then their EPA has authority to tax overuse.
.......aaaand the local permitting and inspection processes automagically generate lists of “registered owners” of such water wells, so you can be later tracked down and taxed. I imagine in times of drought, one’s registered well can be ordered shut down. Violators will be fined and / or jailed.
Now, be sure to be first in line to properly register anything else that government wants to know who has what and where.
Be Good Citizens, now.
Governments get nervous when people decide to live off the grid.
This is all part of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Water Districts war on water rights. They want to eradicate the concept of seniority where upstream cities and property owners have priority over Los Angeles.
The plan is for LA MWD to control every drop of water in California.
I remember when Santa Cruz county shut off our well water and forced us to use their water at a cost. Such a nice government looking after us.
The state of California mismanages water under its control, fails to build adequate water reserves to be collected in “wetter” years, fails to build more desaliniztion plants on its vast coastline, creating the state’s water crisis, so now it wants to go after private water sources and tax private owners for the use of their own water. The Communists managed to convince “Liberals” what they were being taught in college was just a “Liberal” point of view, so now Liberals spout Marxist ideas and refuse to acknowledge that’s what they are.
This, the tax, is in affect “a taking” and not only “a taking” but instead of just compensation the private owner is paying for the privilege of the government taking.
In Montana we have Water rights.
These Rights are adjucated by a series of Montana Water rights courts.
If you drill a well, you apply for a Water right, my well for instance is 10,xxx, and I’m allowed to draw essentially, 10 gallon per minute every minute of the year. It’s my legal Right.
Streams, gulches and irrigation ditches that deliver water to farms & ranches also have numerical rights — if there ever was a SUPER SERIOUS drought some irrigation could be curtailed...
One acre-foot is 325,851 gallons. So the 2 acre-feet minimum is about 40 years of my water usage.
Soon California will be arresting the owners and taking their property.
We put in a well >15 years ago the last time the state failed to provide water service — like not building any water storage for previous 30 years.
Anyhoo, during well installation we had to install double check valves on city water piping — to insure that well water (which is not connected in any way to city water lines) can’t back flush into water lines when the city water lines lose pressure.
We had to pay for the check valves, pay for their annual inspection, etc.
All of this on non-potable water that we use only for irrigation.
CaCaLand is already into this racket big time.
The end goal of the left is taking possession of all private property and all the means of production and making them part of the collectivity.
They can’t do that just yet - the dense public might suspect something is wrong. But they can invalidate the concept of private property by restricting how you use “your” property. The big one is the property tax, by which they take around 3% every year of your home’s value. 33 years is about how long an owner lives in the property, meaning that the government takes the entire value of your home during your lifetime. Is it really “your” property?
Time to sell and move to kentucky, like I did.