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I guess I'm one of the few that doesn't see a problem with this sort of regulation. The water only happened to fall on "your" property by chance. It could have just as easily fallen 20 miles in any given direction. Colorado is attempting - in its draconian way - to protect the greater good. Given the arid conditions, getting that excess water into the storm system is necessary to keep up the water economies of the area.
In other words, all politics is local. And this is as local as it gets. I'd be shocked if this ever got to be an issue in places that get lots of rain, like Charlatan already pointed out. In Singapore, they'd be more concerned that you're keeping water that could become a health hazard. After all, it's going to rain soon again anyway, so what do you need to irrigate? But in the American West, it's a completely different game. And the rules of that game are going to vary by imaginary political line - by necessity.
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