I agree. Watering golf courses is an expensive luxury. I'm prepared to temper that if the courses can be watered with "purple pipe" reclaimed water that otherwise would go unused.
I live in a desert. We didn't have much of anything on our own property that needed watering anyway and when we found the leak in the water main and fixed it, we straight-lined the connection to the irrigation system on our land, disconnecting it entirely. We've been using waste water from washing dishes and cooking to water the two rose bushes and leaving the rest of the plants to make do on their own. We're considering putting in a artificial-turf front yard to replace what is currently a sandy lot. Lisa wants to make it into a putting green; a sort of mini-mini golf course, which might be fun. No watering; just blow the dust off periodically.
And yet the people in my town, in a desert, in a drought, continue to deny that they should cut back at all. I see them watering lawns (and also the adjacent sidewalks). When challenged, they say, "Oh, it just runs back into the groundwater aquifer anyway," and otherwise deny that they're wasting water. I ask, "What are you going to do when the water runs out" and get stony silence. Fools, all of them, but unfortunately they're dragging the rest of us down with them.
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Date: 2015-05-19 03:54 pm (UTC)I live in a desert. We didn't have much of anything on our own property that needed watering anyway and when we found the leak in the water main and fixed it, we straight-lined the connection to the irrigation system on our land, disconnecting it entirely. We've been using waste water from washing dishes and cooking to water the two rose bushes and leaving the rest of the plants to make do on their own. We're considering putting in a artificial-turf front yard to replace what is currently a sandy lot. Lisa wants to make it into a putting green; a sort of mini-mini golf course, which might be fun. No watering; just blow the dust off periodically.
And yet the people in my town, in a desert, in a drought, continue to deny that they should cut back at all. I see them watering lawns (and also the adjacent sidewalks). When challenged, they say, "Oh, it just runs back into the groundwater aquifer anyway," and otherwise deny that they're wasting water. I ask, "What are you going to do when the water runs out" and get stony silence. Fools, all of them, but unfortunately they're dragging the rest of us down with them.