Right across the planet, good fresh water supplies are under pressure. In America's West and Southwest, the combination of drought and booming population growth have made that pressure intense. The trend lines show real trouble for desert cities. Global warming doesn't help. And the West may be a lesson for us all. On Point (listen)
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*gulp*
I think I need a glass of water - very sobering projections.
it seems like it is a big landscape problem. 50% of the water in Denver for lawns and golf courses? People are really talking up xeroscaping, any landscape architects (Barry) care to comment?
kill the lawn!!! or is that 'kill the brick'?
Many landscape architects have be fighting the american obsession of the sod hegemony. Slowly, so slowly, are we pulling up the turf and planting native warm weather grasses and xeriscaping with cacti and succulents that don't require supplementals irrigation once they are established.
The irony is that many people irrigate native shrubs in california with more water then exotic plants, just so they stay green all year round- they don't need the water, but they look 'better' with twice the water- so native plantings with out education don't always save water.
The pastoral suburban sublime is a difficult ideal to fight, yet we must. Florida is facing a major drought yet nobody seems to have noticed. So what will it take beyond fines and cities declaring 'water emergencies'?
strict rationing :
family "a" has 2 adults and 2 kids, and will be allowed a weekly ration of 100 gallons. any gallons not used will be bought back by the city. families will not be penalized for harvesting rainwater....
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oops - I thought I was in the lost lake feed.
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