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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by gills on Monday May 11, 2009 @01:23AM (#603024)
She has to be a pawn in some larger game that intends to subvert water rights. Bills don't come into the state legislature over one organic farmer's attempt to capture rain water. This reads like a slimy PR piece to stoke "grassroots" support for overturning water rights.
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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by knowtheory on Monday May 11, 2009 @04:03AM (#603161)
Even if this were a piece in a larger debate, the stance the courts have taken is highly counter-intuitive (although granted it's not represented in this post), and completely opaque to me.

I can understand the concern to preserve the water rights of the most senior people (okay, that's a lie, i think it's stupid, but i'll capitulate to the court's desire to preserve the system). But i just don't understand how this is either a slippery slope (oh! a pun!) to loss of water rights/usage, or how this could possibly materially effect other water usage.

So... yeah, i'm skeptical about the court's position.

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Re:All she wants is the rain water that lands on her roof by chaostheory on Monday May 11, 2009 @04:05AM (#603165)
How is this a "slimy PR" piece?
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