Well I just don’t think it ought to be a crime to collect rainwater in one or several rain barrels to use as you see fit. If it falls on your land it’s your water.
Water issues out West are wacko and water issues in the East have become the same for different reasons.
If one has land at the height of the watershed, should that (surface) water be one's own?
If one has land that has no (surface) transit of water from above, is that one's own water?
If one can save water from one's own land that doesn't come from surface water from above lands, shouldn't one have total property right to same?
Just wait until teh UN gets into regulating your properties rights, much less the flow from your bladder.