What say the people of Puna to this?

[terracore]

Well the big difference here is that the man in Oregon wasn't collecting rain water, he was constructing illegal reservoirs of water that flowed through his property. It's one thing to catch water from the sky, it's another thing to shutter the taps of people downstream from you. Whether changing the water that flowed off his property was actually effecting somebody downstream is not known, or if it was otherwise effecting the ecosystem, but the law is there for a legitimate reason. If he wanted to construct reservoirs, he probably could have if he did it legally.

Like they say in Texas, whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.