Oh, and the rain barrels and cisterns are being subsidized, as part of a much larger program of curtailing rain-water runoff.
“... as part of a much larger program of curtailing rain-water runoff.”
That’s what I don’t get with Washington State - we are spending all this money on runoff, but then penalize people for trying to catch some of it. And in some years we even have issues with water supply at the end of the summer. Of course I suppose the rain barrels are empty by then so it doesn’t help much.
Heck - there can’t be that many barrels out there to make any perceptible difference either way I would think. You guys subsidize them to make the greenies feel good, and we tax them so the government can make some free money.