Who owns the rain?

• Position: LAW - Brief article

It's now legal, to catch rainwater in Colorado for the first time since the 1800s. In many Western states, where water has always been scarce, every raindrop and snowflake was assigned ownership from the moment it fell--making outlaws of people who collected rainwater from their own gutters. But new laws in Colorado will allow many people to collect rainwater legally. "I was so wilting to go to jail for catching water on my roof and watering my garden," says Tom Bartels of Durango...