The government already regulates enough and it doesn’t need to regulate every goddamn ditch!! Hell when the government starts running everything things generally go to shit!!

@Trajan61 I wonder how fast you would cry for government intervention if your neighbor dumped anthrax into his ditch and let it flow into yours.

Or any other substance you don't want in your water

@Lucy_Fehr You are taking an extreme position that would be extremely unlikely to ever occur. Surely your not suggesting that the federal government should regulate ever ditch and mud puddle in America are you?

@Trajan61 Straw man dude. Enough of this fucking mud puddle nonsense; you look ridiculous

I chose anthrax because it is naturally occurring in soil. I would think a cattleman would be aware of that. But regardless here is another "extreme" example:

Your neighbor loses a lot of cows or pigs or other livestock- the cause may or may not be known. He may or may not have told anyone yet that his livestock died

Do you want the effluent draining into his ditch that drains into your ditch?

And since you have such a little stiffee over mud puddles let me assuage your worry by saying NO, i do not want mud puddles regulated.

K?

Clean drinking water is one thing but regulating every ditch in America is quite another!

@Trajan61 were do you think our drinking water comes from? Drainage in ditches picks up every single chemical left in there.. seeps into ground water. Everyone knows that. At some point you are going to have to use your brain. I believe you’ve replaced religion for that bulbous orange guy in the White House.

@Trajan61 where do those ditches drain to? And where do those areas drain to?

Or do you believe it all gets diluted before it reaches the humans?