Lawn gone: ‘Localscaping’ may save water, but can it rescue the Great Salt Lake?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- The idea is catching on in cities as Utahns shift their thinking about landscaping. The trick is ensuring enough water trickles downstream.
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I've cut my water use to where my lawn is dead, but i drive by three lush green golf courses on my daily commute, hmmm?
@Billy Buckman We should be complaining about both..
Wouldn’t taking out grass and adding cement and rocks raise the ground temperatures?
Cement is White so it reflects heat, asphalt absorbs heat. The Rocks are also light colored and allow water to filter to the soil below
Yes. Adding cement and rock scape raises the ambient temperature. Part of plants growing is giving off oxygen and cooling the air. That’s why a balance of smart landscaping (water wise) and usable landscaping (grass where kids play) is the solution.
Yes!
Yes, I have some stones that get so hot I can't walk on them during summer. They're blazing hot.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try, but good luck with that. Optimistically, yeah, it just might be possible to do what they're wanting. But realistically, it's not likely to happen.
After watching then studying regreening desert design, we need to slow water down and allow the soils to absorb water. Once saturated to proper level, water flows naturally. This has been done around the world to great success. Look at the agriculture steps throughout Asia. Brilliant. Work with nature, don't try to control it as that is impossible
I'm fine with doing my part as a citizen, but what are commercial water users doing? I'm talking about big businesses, golf courses, large mining operations, processing plants, and the like? What can alfalfa or corn farmers plant as alternatives? It's one thing to say cut your use of water, now give me some details of who is doing what.
With all due respect to all the other commenters the “elephant in the room “ as far as water users is agriculture. Farmers, including the one just appointed by the Gov. to consult on water issues always like to claim that their way of life would be threatened by the amount of water they would lose to insure that GSL doesn’t dry up. I would respectfully remind them that skiing in the Wasatch on the greatest snow on earth, hiking in some of the best mountain areas of the world and river rafting are also a part of their “way of life”. The lake effect precipitation that has blessed the Wasatch Range is the beating heart of the hydrologic cycle. IMO it is disingenuous for the major water rights holders to put undue emphasis on climate change and municipal water usage as the main reason for the drying up of GSL. There are lots of solutions to this problem but pointing fingers and flirting with the idea of bringing salt water in from the Pacific Ocean aren’t two of them.
Let's not beat around the Bush here,, you lot are in deep trouble and its not going away anytime soon.
I love the concept of water wise landscaping as it's far more interesting. That dull square of uninteresting greenish lawn needs to go. At the same time this area and it's watersheds needs to stop "growing" population wise. Sorry politicians but you need to start putting quality over quantity. Many native Utahans are priced out of here so quality over growth is the next move.
Growth itself isn't the problem. It's the fact we are no longer building enough homes to prevent rising prices, and we are growing in the wrong areas. Direct the growth up the major canyons and onto the other side of the mountain range. Given the natural geography, we probably shouldn't even have expanded as far from the mountains as state street.
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But golf courses are exempt for the elitist to play
They should plant Cactus 🌵 in yards and build little Desert Ecosystems 🏜
You don't see many cacti growing in the natural places around here but wonders can be done with big tooth maples, oak brush and native plants and grasses. You don't see ten thousand square feet of plain old rocks either unless you're on a landslide.