RAH, no hostility intended by this question, simply curious: Do you believe your rights as a private property owner gives you leeway, either by action or inaction, to affect the water sources of those living next to you? All sources, both above and below ground?
I would ask the same question of all who have been involved in these recent threads...where do our rights as property owners end, and those of our neighbors begin?
I think that is the right top question in a nutshell. How much rights do we have to pollute our fellow human beings. In any area, not just water. As I hike everyday for exercise I carry a bag to pick up trash tossed into the road ditch by my field. The point as I see it is where does the individual rights protections give way for the common rights protection. The larger the population the more controls are needed is the way it seems to works.
