are you fucking kidding me?
It’s illegal or highly fined in a lot of other countries as well. (Especially during dry seasons)
In other countries they don’t cut you off from water infrastructure either though. Context is important.
Israel provides 13% of water. Hamas is responsible for the rest. They just build bombs with the water pipes instead.
Hamas isn’t in power in the West Bank.
They have the PLO there and no siege. A/B areas are not under this law since they’re not under Israeli rule.
Except whenever the settlements decide to expand they bring Israeli laws with them. Which is 100 percent a war crime. Or an act of war if you want to pretend the West Bank is a separate country not under occupation.
Those expansions of land and laws are into C areas, which is by the Oslo accords the property of Israel. Now, you can question the legitimacy of the C areas as stated by Oslo, but those terms were agreed upon by the PLO and Israel. It’s a fucked up situation that Israel gets most of the uninhabited land, but that’s what’s been agreed to by both parties. If the peace talks would’ve continued and Rabin wouldn’t have been murdered, and the Intifada wouldn’t have happened, maybe those C area settlements’ expansions wouldn’t have happened.
Israel has long ago broken any accord they made with Palestine. Those agreements were predicated on respecting the sovereignty of Palestine and the decades long blockade and occupation of anywhere they want to be means that accord is dead.
You don’t get to ignore a treaty while demanding the other party respect it.
I hope domestic needs includes drinking.
Please don’t drink rain water. It’s not safe for human consumption. Plants will be ok, you will not be.
I mean… you know we have filtration technology right?
You don’t drink raw water out of an unclear well or even clear river either bruh
I slurp it straight out of the gutter, leaves and all.
Cometely unrelated but something is wriggling inside my eyeball.
Colorado used to disallow collection of rainwater too because people further down the line supposedly had the rights to that water.
You’re now allowed something like 2 - 30 gallon barrels to collect it here now.
Late stage capitalism: where they decide someone owns the fucking rain.
Water rights are the opposite of late stage capitalism. It’s silly to enforce when we’re talking about a residential rain barrel, but when we’re talking on much larger scales is critical. When creeks are drying up because landowners are building catchment ponds, water rights start to look pretty good.
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