1.0Sightline Institutehttps://www.sightline.orgJennifer Langstonhttps://www.sightline.org/profile/jennifer-langston/Legalizing It (Your Rain Barrel) - Sightline Instituterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="b8P2Nakrz5"><a href="https://www.sightline.org/2011/07/14/legalizing-it-your-rain-barrel/">Legalizing It (Your Rain Barrel)</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.sightline.org/2011/07/14/legalizing-it-your-rain-barrel/embed/#?secret=b8P2Nakrz5" width="600" height="338" title="“Legalizing It (Your Rain Barrel)” — Sightline Institute" data-secret="b8P2Nakrz5" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rain-Barrel-by-barb-howe-cc.-e1463169881399.jpg900600Just a few years ago, a Washington state homeowner who simply stuck a rain barrel at the end of a gutter to collect water for watering a garden or washing a car was arguably breaking the law. Sure, people did it anyway. But if one really wanted to get persnickety, there was an argument to be made that anyone collecting rain needed a water right, since the state at one point in its history laid claim to regulating all waters “above, upon and below” the Earth.