My wife and I have both lived in Washington State all of our lives. This is getting to be more and more rare for people in our age group who live here. We have been invaded and it is not pretty. It is not hard to see that this place is headed in the same direction as California. People from the big cities are now ruling the surrounding rural areas with an iron fist.
Our State Supreme Court which is a political body, has made many, many corrupt decisions from “fining” our state legislature over $80 million dollars for “underfunding” schools... to making it illegal to drill a private well in rural areas of the state and denying property owners the ability to build a house on their property. This supposedly is to protect fish.
Never mind that in real inflation adjusted dollars the state is spending two or three times more per student than it did when I was a kid. And never mind that there is no evidence that rural wells in our state have any impact on fish or stream life.
“People from the big cities are now ruling the surrounding rural areas with an iron fist.”
I’d say, aside from there being too much of it in general, this is the biggest problem we have in the way government is structured, moreso even than the states’ rights vs federal thing. States themselves are just getting more broken into city vs rural every year, and it’s two completely different worlds. City folk don’t know life in rural areas, nor do they care. Like you illustrate, what does it bother them to ban rural wells?
Getting to the point where state government need to be broken up into separate city and rural bodies that don’t have jurisdiction over the other.