Tucson rainwater harvesting law drawing interest

Duh.

A century ago it was standard for homes to have a few rainbarrels. Today I struggle to find houses that have roof gutters, and the few commercial buildings with gutters have a run-off spout directing water into a parking lot or sewer drain.

The cost of setting up gutters and rainbarrels is small considering the high price everyone is going to pay once the water tables in the desert Southwest dry out. Consider it an investment in the future of LIFE.

Typical that the blame always goes to the residential public, warned to take shorter showers or banned from watering their vegetable garden on Mondays. Something like 80% of freshwater is used for livestock agriculture - feedlots, slaughterhouses, and dairy operations. Yet this disproportionate waste of water is overlooked and ignored.

The massive dairy farms around southern NM and AZ will be a thing of the past when water gets scarce and expensive, and when the federal government no longer subsidizes these operations so the masses can "do their body good." People are starting to realize it makes a lot more sense to use the water to grow vegetables instead of using 100 times the amount to produce a glass of diseased milk. And don't get me started on golf courses. Buh bye. The obesity problem in the US will also go away as meat & dairy products become prohibitively expensive and unavailable.

This is nothing new here in Az. Must be a slow news cycle. All runoff water must be contained in every project so as not to flood the streets and ends up in underground water banks.The problem is we use it faster than nature can give it back.In theory water is never lost.

I just moved out West, and I'm quite surprised this is just now being implemented, considering all you hear about water shortages here.
Residences and business should be doing this right now, instead of continuing to discuss this as a possible way to conserve.

This is an unpopular statement, but water it too cheap - if it cost more people would conserve more, and I know many are doing everything they can already but something like 20% of Cal Am customers use 40% of the residential water. Double those customers costs and you'll get their attention, at last.

Just do it!