As it turns out, chasing raindrops isn’t all that easy, and counting them is even harder.

As a result, a pioneering program to harvest rainwater on a commercial scale in Colorado will likely end next year if lawmakers don’t find a way to continue the work, according to Tracy Kosloff, deputy state engineer at the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Individual homeowners will still to be allowed to collect rainwater in rain barrels at their homes .

The commercial pilot program was created in 2016 and authorized up to 10 water districts across the state to build site-specific rainwater harvesting programs that would work under Colorado’s complex water court system, where water rights are intensely scrutinized by other users, engineers and attorneys. Each has a legal right to challenge

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