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Lake Mead water ... What will California do when it's gone??
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You can drink from the mist of Mount Wai'ale'ale and refresh your thirst for life ~I will drink your water.
And those little rubber pellets get into everything
Saves everyone water and the District $$$$$ so IMO it's worth the minor downside.
Saves everyone water and the District $$$$$ so IMO it's worth the minor downside.
Most synthetic fields are still installed with irrigation rotors, to cool down the turf on really hot days. Kinda weird to think that irrigation is still needed on fake grass. 
Yeah why can't we just breed a drought-tolerant form of grass? How does it make sense for me to tear up my lawn and spend thousands on a bunch of oil-based plastics that decompose in the sun rather than just reduce watering or plant some drought-tolerant fescues?Most synthetic fields are still installed with irrigation rotors, to cool down the turf on really hot days. Kinda weird to think that irrigation is still needed on fake grass.
At any rate, it's becoming more clear that water mismanagement is killing us rather than the drought itself.
Isn't it all agraculter using the water?
I hardly don't use no water and could use less.
I don't get how shower water aint used for the shitter
I hardly don't use no water and could use less.
I don't get how shower water aint used for the shitter
There's quite a few native drought-resistant turf types. Some are summer deciduous, though, or just don't have a consistent growth needed for athletic fields. Might be okay for your lawn, if you can put up with browning and uneven growth.
All of the native California grasses are drought tolerant however they don't stay green when it's dry. I've bought the native grass seed mix before and liked it. It will dry out for months and look dead, then come right back once it gets some water, just like the hills
There's a business opportunity for someone to develop and install grey water and rain catchment systems, get the heads up on the competition and then lobby for such systems to be mandated in building codes. Just saying.
If governments truly cared about any of these 'problems' building code would have incorporated any or all of this long ago to reflect as such. Never happened, guess why?
Same with the energy 'crisis'.
There are several companies doing that right now on the grey water front. Rain water catchment/retention is becoming a requirement throughout the State. In many cities it is now part of the building code for new construction and/or remodel work to install measures to eliminate runoff from a property.
You'd think with CA's liberal leanings, grey water would be a no brainer. That noted, there are some issues with grey water systems that make them a little more difficult to operate than a rain catchment/retention system.
Detergents and organic solids are the main issues. The Shower and laundry grey water is the easiest/most practical for reuse as long as you are using the correct soaps/detergents. Dishwasher and sink grey water is difficult as you are often discharging solids.
It's almost as if John Wesley Powell warned us all this would happen in 1878, laid out a plan for mitigating it, and was summarily ignored by Congress.
"rain follows the plow," they said
