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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by ppod on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:31AM (#25942237)
The Federal Government does not have any restrictions on rainwater harvesting. Some states have minor regulations in terms of the amount of rainwater collecting and the means by which it is collected, but most states allow their citizens to collect rainwater while others even encourage it.

https://worldwaterreserve.com/rainwater-harvesting/is-it-ill...

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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by yonaguska on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:44AM (#25942438)
They don't anymore bc Trump scrapped that. Obama instituted it by expanding the clean water act to cover "isolated wetlands, ponds, and ditches".
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by wavefunction on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:23AM (#25943170)
Taking water out of ditches or the other types of places mentioned is not "rain-water harvesting."
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Re:Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberr... by stretchcat on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:38AM (#25944510)
If you dig a ditch specifically to be filled with rain water, then in what sense is taking rainwater from that ditch not harvesting rainwater?

Is it no longer rainwater if it touches a ditch? Maybe it's no longer rainwater if it touches a barrel. "Haha no States have laws against harvesting rainwater, only barrel water, you fools!"

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