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Here in the southwest we have been getting dire warning of the water drying up in lake mead which will force the government to probably put in place water restrictions.
I for one do not own a pool or a sprinkler system and use minimal amounts of water for essential use such as showering, cooking, etc.
These people with the huge houses with two or 3 pools fountains and sprinkler systems seem they are taking up a big portion of the water.
Would you do anything different such as instead of 3 showers take one or limit the use of the irrigation/sprinkler system?
You should probably use irrigation in your yard to plant large shade trees and shrubs that have a cooling effect, which will reduce your energy consumption, reduce the urban heat island effect in your city.
The problem with Arizona is everybody throws crushed gravel in their yard and calls it a day, exasperating the UHI, and allowing UV light to heat the structure and enter the house through windows/roofs, which then require more energy to be produced to cool the structure, which is largely produced by boiling water into steam to push a turbine.
With 75% of the state's water going to agriculture, often to low value crops like alfalfa, and things like data centers that use more water than thousands of homes, homeowner cutbacks would be a literal drop in the bucket.
I wouldn't worry about water. Nothing will happen as long as Biden is president.
So there's no such thing as state responsibility, regional responsibility, municipal responsibility, individual responsibility? Everything is Biden's fault!
Golf courses use between 750,000 and 1 million gallons of water a day in the desert. Time to shut them all down. We are in a crisis and golf courses are not essential services.
Some people in Houston are concerned about their water being more expensive than electricity. But they water their grass every day.
The extraction of oil, especially fracking, uses huge amounts of water. My worry is what do they do with the tainted water? Looks to me like for every gallon of petroleum they get out of the ground, they use 2 gallons of water. What to do with that water that can never be cleaned up enough to be used for anything ever again should be a worry for all of us.
Texas has thousands of abandoned wells that have never been capped. Every so often the burp. All salt water poisons the land and taints water wells.
Everybody bellyaching about the price of gasoline will be bellyaching about the lack of water in a few years. Which would you rather have, water to shower in or cheap gasoline?
You should probably use irrigation in your yard to plant large shade trees and shrubs that have a cooling effect, which will reduce your energy consumption, reduce the urban heat island effect in your city.
The problem with Arizona is everybody throws crushed gravel in their yard and calls it a day, exasperating the UHI, and allowing UV light to heat the structure and enter the house through windows/roofs, which then require more energy to be produced to cool the structure, which is largely produced by boiling water into steam to push a turbine.
Why not plant indigenous plants? BTW, they grow on sand and gravel... that is their nature.
Here in the southwest we have been getting dire warning of the water drying up in lake mead which will force the government to probably put in place water restrictions.
I for one do not own a pool or a sprinkler system and use minimal amounts of water for essential use such as showering, cooking, etc.
These people with the huge houses with two or 3 pools fountains and sprinkler systems seem they are taking up a big portion of the water.
Would you do anything different such as instead of 3 showers take one or limit the use of the irrigation/sprinkler system?
I live in Denver and have taken many steps to reduce my water usage. I shower every other day in line with my exercise habits (I run every other day), I wash clothes once a week and only full loads, and I am in the process of xeriscaping my yard. My water use is about 50% that of my neighbors.
Farming operations could farm crops that have a small use of water such as sorghum. Instead the federal government might pay them to plant nothing.
For residential lots I do like the idea of root irrigation of shade trees. Of course choose the correct type of tree for the region. Watering of grass should not be allowed
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