KSL: Lawmakers discuss options to make Utah canals safer – Utah has between 6,000 and 7,000 miles of canals, controlled by roughly 1,200 canal companies. On Wednesday, state lawmakers began wrestling with the issue of how to make those canals safer.
Salt Lake Tribune:
Bill would keep Utah canals’ hazards a secret – Last summer’s deadly Logan canal collapse is spurring efforts to identify potential hazards along Utah’s waterways, but a House bill would keep those findings secret from the public and even the courts.
Lawmakers want to legalize backyard rainwater use – The Utah Senate advanced a bill legalizing the common but illegal practice of collecting gardening or lawn water in a 55-gallon drum, and opposition from water-rights purists in the House appeared to soften with proposed amendments requiring water users to register with the state.
Deseret News: Rainwater bill resurfaces – A bill that failed to pass in the final hours of the 2009 Legislature allowing Utahns to collect rainwater on their own property surfaced again Wednesday.
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