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Yanking out lawns saves water and money

Posted by: Maven on June 24, 2009 at 6:43 am

From KPBS:

The San Diego County Water Authority says nearly 60 percent of our drinking water is used for lawns and other landscaping. Mandatory outdoor water restrictions means some lawns will go brown this summer. But, as KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce tells us, some people are pulling up their grass. It’s part of our week-long series: “H2NO: San Diego Going Dry.”

More of us may need to become deviants to stretch our limited water supply. “It is normal when you drive down the street to see every front yard have a large lawn,” Maureen Stapleton says. “That is tradition.”

Stapleton is the General Manager of the San Diego County Water Authority. “And what is standing out now are those that have substantially modified their landscaping into non-lawn for the front yard,” Stapleton says. “That is truly a deviation from what has been considered normal activity.”

Stapleton talked behavioral psychology at a recent water conservation summit. Motivating people to alter landscapes is one of the key strategies for water conservation.

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June 24, 2009 · Filed Under Drought Tolerant Landscaping

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