California has a reputation for being an environmentally-forward state, yet up until 2013 they had a stupid, archaic, wasteful law that prevented people from filling growlersfrom other breweries. Even now today, they have to slap a label over the existing growler design. I’ve only filled in a few states, but do any other ones require this dumb practice? And some breweries may opt to not fill other growlers at all, which encourages waste.
Many states allow exceptions for consumption. Note the map here, although I think it might need an update as it’s from 2007.
I think that has been explained here before, though. No water flows into Colorado (nor, I think, Wyoming), every drop of water comes from the sky. Large swaths of the country rely on the precipitation that lands there, which is makes it a unique situation. You could see why collecting rainwater would be illegal.
It’s not a matter of “keeping up with the neighbors”, but of “hey, this issue has come up… do any of our neighbors already have some regulations about it?” If someone else has a similar-enough legal framework and already has done the background work, there’s no need to redo it.
Wrong on both counts. The Little Snake River originates in CO. It goes back and forth across the CO-WY border several times before entering WY for good. Many tributaries of the Little Snake flow from WY to join it in CO.
I heard somewhere that in Wyoming it’s illegal to have sex with a fish. I’m sure Graham Norton had a segment on his show about odd laws like that, and telephoned (live) a random sheriff’s office to ask about it. There was a lively conversation with a lovely lady (once she’d got over being worried about what her hair would look like on TV).
Don’t see why you restricted it to the little Snake. I just did random check on a section of the WY-ID border and there are numerous streams into WY from ID. It really isn’t that hard to look at Google Maps to check these sort of things out.