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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It makes more sense to limit the amount of water collected than to outright banning it tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by "makes more sense"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes.

I work in municipal development and how rainwater is handled is a huge part of my job. It usually comes down to whatever the developer wants is bad.

They either want to collect all water and essentially deny it to everyone else so they can sell it, or they want to pave over everything and refuse to detain stormwater and flood the neighbors.

It's not at all the same thing as Palestinians wanting water for food and crops, but a lot of the time these laws start out as something sensible before being used as a weapon.