“Here in Washington state they tax you to have a rain barrel!”
And next door, in BC, they subsidize rain barrels and cisterns.
Speaking of Victoria and Seattle - Seattle is spending billions of dollars to prevent rain-water runoff from going directly into Puget Sound. With the small amounts of oil, fertilizer, etc. that get mixed in.
Victoria - just to the north, still dumps most of its raw sewage into the water. Although to be fair, the Strait of Juan de Fuca(?) has a lot more water flowing and mixing which dilutes it fairly quickly compared to Puget Sound. The stuff is screened for debris and solid waste.
But still - it just seems odd that we are treating rain water - and you guys get to dump raw sewage!