Is Drinking Rainwater Legal?

Is it legal to collect and drink rainwater?

[menooNFT]

dude calling out drinking water companies while building his guillotine... he means french business

[SlurmpMergatroid]

I never thought the guy who taught me how to tie a noose would try to save my life.

[dimitrilitovsk]

I came for the lemon stand and I stayed for the great conversations

[jebbroham]

I've never heard anyone say "the water is contaminated" with such silent rage in all my life.

[pwnership]

Love how he explained not to drink rainwater like it's some kind of lovecraftian horror

[robertscarola]

There is a 100% possibility that molecules of water in the bottle in your refrigerator have been pissed out of a dinosaur.

[sebione]

"Water is not a basic human right." -Peter Brabek-Letmathe, chairman of Nestle.

[stormcry]

One thing to consider with rainwater is how you collected it. My family would use it in the garden, but we wouldn't drink it direct from the barrel. I asked my dad about that when I was a kid. He turned around and pointed at the roof, and said "would you really want to drink the water that's come from a roof with seagull shit all over it." I live in Maine, and we have tons of birds flying around.

[theinfamousg]

"bro do you want to use the new slip and slide?"

"nah bro I can't, I don't got my water collecting permit"

[cmm]

While public health safety is one reason for regulating the use and storage of rainwater, another reason was to keep big companies (or even private citizens) from disrupting the ecosystem by building large reservoirs and storing a massive portion of the water that would normally flow through to a watershed.
Someone mentioned that a man was arrested for illegal rainwater collection, and yes that happened. However, that man was not just collecting a few thousand gallons of rainwater for everyday use, he was disrupting the flow of creeks by building dams that ranged from 10-20 feet tall and storing nearly 13 million gallons of water. The man basically built these reservoirs to siphon off water from natural ecosystems to create private ones on his property. This also wasn’t the first time he had been in trouble for it. There’s more details to the story, but yah that’s more of what the regulations are about.

[missthey]

I work in water treatment and there's plenty of simple methods to clean rain water at home. All you need is access to heat, iodine or some other potable base, and a charcoal filter.

[hgvtechuk]

My grandma warned me about the danger of private corporates taking over water, food and lands. That day you will have to pay for drink, eat and travel. Here we are.

[pioson]

Sand, Charcoal, and Gravel are all common in water filtration. Always remember you can craft your own

[maximillianalexander]

The requirement of a permit to collect rainwater is otherwise known as tyrannical oppression

[addictionsucks]

I'm terrified one day he's actually going to use the lemonade stand.

[CartoonWeasel]

"Sometimes a permit is required"

Ok so, illegal.

[ulogy]

Man's channeling both ChubbyEmu and Filthy Frank simultaneously somehow

[theoverseer]

>looks at michigan

“I’ll take my chances with rainwater”

[kera]

"Don't drink the water. *They* put something in it, to make you forget." - man i met at the train station

[richcrazydad]

Bro went from knife game, to building a melon crusher, to now calling out the water bottle corporations