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[–] 92 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

Given the context, this seems more evil than is probably intended.

There are laws about collection and storage of rainwater all over the world unrelated to genocide. Water falling from the sky is the source of aquifers, lakes, and rivers that are important for everyone.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    The context is very straightfoward. It is an occupied territory. The occupier claims ownership of natural ressources in the occupied territory. This is typical imperialist behaviour and illegal under international law.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    https://youtu.be/QZkSRlIs9o0?si=l7jYk8g92oIS4t3b

    The evil part is having laws like this and then filling in their water sources with concrete.

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  • To add what others said (like Israel making up rules for Palestine), the people of Palestine are being attacked and their infrastructure targeted. It is pretty evil to destroy the water supply and then say: "but you can't get it elsewhere :)".
    I don't think this is necessarily the case here, but laws like this are often an attempt to offer the appearance of legitimacy to acts of violence (i.e. "yes we imprisoned them but they broke the law!").

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Water for agricultural and domnestic use usually is fed back to the water cycle, though.

    Watering my veggies is distinct from e.g. building a dam, or something.

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  • [+] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wouldn't call that "domnestic or agricultural" use anymore.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    AFAIK, there is no such laws in Europe. I know for parts of USA and Israel. Correct me if I am wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    No such laws in Russia. And it seems no such laws in Poland. No for Ukraine, no for Belarus, Kazahstan even has some bonuses if you collect rainwater, Latviya has some bonuses too.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    You are definitely wrong. I work in municipal development and a developer retaining water on site beyond what is necessary to offset their increased impervious cover is something that's highly discouraged and restricted.

    Water need to go to the rivers and aquifers, and damming it up for private use is a real problem.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There are laws about collection and storage of rainwater all over the world unrelated to genocide.

    I never seen them before. Too much rainwater is a problem, but not collecting it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It can be actually. People upstream of water sources - often wealthy people with land but sometimes a collective of local farmers - build dams or retaining ponds to save the water for themselves and on a significant scale can limit the amount of water that goes downstream.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It makes more sense to limit the amount of water collected than to outright banning it tho.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Sometimes.

    I work in municipal development and how rainwater is handled is a huge part of my job. It usually comes down to whatever the developer wants is bad.

    They either want to collect all water and essentially deny it to everyone else so they can sell it, or they want to pave over everything and refuse to detain stormwater and flood the neighbors.

    It's not at all the same thing as Palestinians wanting water for food and crops, but a lot of the time these laws start out as something sensible before being used as a weapon.

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