[BwanaNdege]

How about buying a home in Colorado and later learning that you cannot collect rainwater from your roof to water your garden/yard.

Home Owners Associations, Petty tyrants, bureaucrats, zoning laws & building inspectors: I understand Daniel Boone’s comment about when he could smell the smoke of a neighbor’s chimney then it was time to move.

(mutter, mutter, mutter.... /rant)

[hoosierham]

That rainwater prohibition is in a lot of places,just unknown or un-enforced.The "private" water company that serves much of my area requires that only their supplied water be used for any purposes by the customer.Pre-existing wells,cisterns and ponds are not to be used even for lawn watering.by the letter of the contract.Although some still are,one never knows when a change in management will bring cease and desist orders or worse.

There are those who still maintain private wells,cisterns,and pumps,and even rain barrels. Several years ago,I read in the Cincinnati Enquirer of one community in northern Kentucky that was going to tax property owners for the amount of rainwater going into the city storm sewers while ,if I remember correctly,also prohibiting private collection of the rainwater.