Man 30 dagen de cel in voor opvang van regenwater (video)

Agenda 21 in full swing…

Er valt enige (niet veel) nuance aan te brengen:

Rainwater diversion and collection may seem like a dumb law, but Oregon legislators had once mulled over the wording of the law and enacted it for a reason. And the fact that state authorities chose to prosecute Harrington signifies that there is some import to the law.

For example, if everyone built reservoirs on their property and collected rainwater, there is a chance that Oregon's rivers, lakes, ponds, and streams could suffer. So while Gary Harrington's arrest may have brought some publicity to the "stupidity" of his prison sentence, a benefit may be that more Oregon residents now know that you can't always collect rainwater and snow runoff on your property.

So while Gary Harrington's arrest may have brought some publicity to the "stupidity" of his prison sentence, a benefit may be that more Oregon residents now know that you can't always collect rainwater and snow runoff on your property.

Oregon speelt de 'angstkaart' (ge zijdt gewaarschuwd).
Meer kan ik er niet van maken......

Agenda 21 in full swing…

@ wingload:
De link met agenda 21 leg ik zo snel niet.
Kun je dit toelichten?

@goof
Agenda 21 is in 1992 ondertekend en vormde de basis voor wat we in Nederland kennen als 'duurzaamheid' (sustainability, slecht vertaald). Biodiversiteit hoort daar ook bij. Bekijk de annotaties (boven) en ontwikkel gevoel voor Agenda 21.
Het is klatergroen wat ons verkocht wordt. Je zult een spuughekel krijgen aan duurzaamheid en meer hechten aan ouderwets milieu.

Je zult een spuughekel krijgen aan duurzaamheid

@ wingload:
Inderdaad.
Mijn vraag is ook een andere; bezien vanuit de agenda zelf, wat rechtvaardigt de staat Oregon om juist tegen de permacultuur te strijden?

Jij blijkbaar wel, gelet op jouw reactie en de annotaties.

In de Amerikaanse staat Oregon is het sinds 1925 strafbaar om regenwater en sneeuw op te vangen.

Agenda 21 is in 1992 ondertekend

Oregon was already 50 years old when a new statewide water law was passed in 1909. Up to that time, the laws had been vague, and disputes over water were common. When neighbors disagreed over who was entitled to water, the case was often settled with shotguns and dynamite. In that era, violence over water was so serious and so commonplace that Mark Twain is said to have observed, "Whiskey's for drinking; water's for fighting."

Matters might have continued this way indefinitely. But at the turn of the century, the U.S. Reclamation Service was prepared to build extensive irrigation projects to help stimulate Western agriculture. To qualify for the irrigation projects, states had to prove a workable system of water laws and rights.

The state does assign all water rights, and all the records are kept in a vault in Salem. Surprisingly, it doesn't cost anything to obtain a water right. The right itself is free. Rights are attached to a specific property. So when land is sold, the water rights are included. That's why rural real-estate ads often contain the statement "original water rights."

Like most laws, this one has a long list of exceptions. For example, under a domestic groundwater exemption, almost anyone can drill a well and use 15,000 gallons a day. In recent years, the trend has been to allow for an increasing number of exemptions. Each exemption takes another gulp from the total supply of water. But exemptions are the only way to create "new" water from a supply that has been legally allocated for nearly a century.

The 1909 law was based on a rule of "prior appropriation." This is a legal principle that gives preference to the oldest water rights, also called "senior" rights, over newer or "junior" rights. In other words, the "prior" water users always get their legal "appropriation" of water before anybody else. In practice, it's rather like a large family where a bowl of food is passed from the oldest to the youngest. By the time the bowl reaches the toddlers, there often isn't anything left.

Actual water use is almost never measured or recorded, so when water is in short supply, disputes can still arise among the holders of rights. If a prior-appropriation complaint is filed, an official "water master" has the right to enter private property to observe whether water is being used illegally. In general, if illegal use is discovered, the violator simply has to promise that they will apply for a water right - and in the meanwhile, they can go on using the water.

Dat heeft allemaal niets van doen met Agenda 21.

Oregon kent een mix van mediterrane en continentale klimaattypes waarbij de overeenkomst voor heel de staat is dat er sprake is van droge zomers en relatief natte winters. In een klein gebied in het zuiden van Oregon komt op basis van de neerslagindex een koud steppeklimaat voor. Gedurende de wintermaanden zorgt de aanvoer van depressies vanaf de relatief warme Grote Oceaan ervoor dat de neerslagsom in de winter aanzienlijk hoger ligt. Wel zijn er binnen de staat Oregon redelijk grote verschillen in de uiteindelijke gemiddelde hoeveelheden neerslag waar te nemen. dat heeft vooral te maken met de berggebieden, die er voor kunnen zorgen dat door stijgingsregens er grote hoeveelheden neerslag op één locatie kunnen vallen. Aan de lijzijde van de bergen ligt de neerslagsom vaak aan stuk lager. Het in de winter relatief warme zeewater zorgt ervoor dat vorst en sneeuw minder kans hebben dan verder landinwaarts.

De wet was en is niets anders dan een oplossing voor een lokaal probleem.

Bovendien is de gedachte dat de regen, die valt van iedereen is, volgens mij helemaal niet gek of vreemd. Het is eigenlijk veel vreemder en als je er over nadenkt eigenlijk een onmogelijke illusie, dat we een stuk land zouden kunnen (ver)kopen of bezitten.

"What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?"
Massasoit

"One does not sell the land people walk on."
Crazy Horse

"We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?"
Sealth

"If we ever owned the land we own it still, for we never sold it. In the treaty councils the commissioners have claimed that our country had been sold to the government. Suppose a white man should come to me and say, Joseph, I like your horses, and I want to buy them. Then he goes to my neighbor and says to him; Joseph's horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell. My neighbor answers, Pay me the money and I will sell you Joseph's horses. The white man returns to me, and says, Joseph, I have bought your horses and you must let me have them. If we sold our lands to the government, this is the way they were bought."
Chief Joseph-Nez Perce

@goof Dit is het tijdperk van de doublespeak. Het gaat niet om wat de simpele burger denkt dat duurzaamheid en biodiversiteit betekenen. Het draait in werkelijkheid om herhuisvestiging van en totale controle over de populatie, het gewone volk.

Bekijk de documentaires en lezingen om gevoel voor Agenda 21 te ontwikkelen.

Het draait in werkelijkheid om herhuisvestiging van en totale controle over de populatie, het gewone volk

En dat is zeker allemaal begonnen met de Oregon Water Law in 1909?

Water must be used for "beneficial" purposes and it cannot be wasted

Waar maakt men zich druk om? Deze man heeft willens en wetens lak aan de wet en dan zou het zielig of oneerlijk zijn, als hij daarvan de consequenties van moet ondergaan? En dat terwijl hij meer dan eens de kans heefdt gekregen om de zaken netjes te regelen? En waarom maakt de Youtube geen melding van de bestemming van een groot deel van zijn eigen gemaakte meer? Dat heeft immers helemaal niets met permacultuur te maken..

Harrington stored and used water illegally by placing dams across channels on his property and preventing the flow of water out of these artificial reservoirs without obtaining a water right permit. The height of each dam varies; two dams stand about ten feet tall and the third stands about 20 feet tall. The total amount of water collected behind these dams totals about 40 acre feet; enough to fill almost 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools. These man-made reservoirs feature boat docks, boats, and were stocked by Harrington with trout and Bluegill for recreational fishing.

The state first identified Harrington’s illegal water use more than ten years ago and initiated enforcement action to discontinue his illegal use of water. After numerous attempts by OWRD and the Watermaster to achieve voluntary compliance, the Department enlisted the assistance of the Oregon State Police in 2002. Citations were issued, and Harrington pleaded guilty to several violations. He was assessed a nominal fine and ordered to drain the three reservoirs, which he did. However, Harrington again closed the headgates in 2004 and refilled the reservoirs. As a result, OWRD and the Oregon State Police submitted reports to the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office alleging additional violations of Oregon water law. That office filed misdemeanor charges against Harrington, and in 2008 he pled guilty to one count. He was issued another fine, placed on one year probation, and was again ordered to drain the reservoirs.

According to testimony in the most recent trial, the day after Harrington’s probation expired, he again closed the outlet valves and refilled the reservoirs. The District Attorney’s Office enlisted the help of the Oregon Department of Justice, charges were once again filed in Jackson County Circuit Court, and on July 11, 2012, a jury found Harrington guilty of all nine counts.

“Mr. Harrington has operated these three reservoirs in flagrant violation of Oregon law for more than a decade,” noted OWRD Deputy Director Tom Paul. “We rely on the judicial system to maintain the rule of law and the Court’s conviction and sentencing in this case has done just that.”