Jim Miller said the issue in Colorado was the agricultural operations downstream, “versus everybody else in the Front Range and West. What they finally decided is you have to pay a permit fee to have a tank, $28 the last time I checked. But Colorado State University conducted research on whether (catchment) really was diverting significant amounts of water out of the agriculture water rights. They found if rainwater harvesting was done on a much broader scale than it is today, only 3 percent would be diverted.”

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