Come to Oregon. ..we get charged for the water falling on our property...oh...and our green government does NOT count water providing electricity as a “renewable resource”
I have always wanted to visit Oregon.
I have heard about your issues with the odd govt stuff.
I live in the great wide open, but even here we now have to put up with restrictions on number and type of wells we can have even though we have an abundant supply of clean fresh water. As of yet, they haven't started taxing us for rain. :)
One time I asked a local "watermaster" "After God gives the rain, when exactly does the state take possession? He answered, "when it hits the ground."
With the EPA now wanting to control of all of our water, springs, ponds, creeks, puddles, they are going to have quite a time wrestling that control from our state watermaster.