Originally Posted by
Kat Sews
You may want to check for local ordinances to make sure the barrels are legal where you live. My brother's neighbor in West Valley, Utah had one and was told to remove it as the rain water running off their roof didn't belong to the home owner.
Isn't that ridiculous. It doesn't belong to the authority who told him to remove his rain barrel. If it belongs to anyone it belongs to God. Here in Australia last summer there was talk of the government taking water from people who had tanks. Thankfully it didn't come to that.