The Drought and Water Use in California
 

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...407-story.html

Shit just got real out here. 135 water districts will have to cut use by 35%.

Pretty crazy stuff. There is talk leaking out that some sort of action is going to happen here too. I say start with the golf courses.

Cut by ~1/3?

That's pretty Draconian, no?

Time to ban the hissing of summer lawns.

We've been talking about turf removal with the water district for the last year. They'll pay up to $3.00 per sq. ft. to rip it out and replace with decomposed granite and xeriscaping.

We dug up the grass in the backyard last month. Next, we will be digging out the grass from our front yard. At this rate, California should simply outlaw grass as a ground cover.

Phoenix should have done it long ago.

Are many people doing it ?

The Drought and Water Use in California
 

We are putting in some decorative stamped concrete in our backyard. Not covering the whole yard but reducing the amount of lawn space by extending sidewalk and patios.

Agriculture uses 80% of California's water, yet is not subject to the new restrictions (or so I read). It seems to me that restricting lawn-watering and car-washing is only going to get California so far.