10 Barrel ban banished.

PositionSTATELINE - Brief article

By passing what Colorado Representative Jessie Danielson (D) called a "commonsense water-conservation measure," the General Assembly turned the arid state's rain-barrel outlaws into upstanding citizens. Not that many of them knew they were breaking the law by collecting precipitation from their rooftops--or that they faced a (rarely enforced) $500 fine for doing so. The law, which failed last year, is a compromise between urban conservationists and farmers concerned about their water rights. It states...

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