The news comes from the latest report by the California State Water Resources Board, which said the drop in urban water usage was equivalent to nearly 26,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, or "enough water for 1.7 billion people each to take a five-minute shower."
...
To combat it, Californians have been taking steps that might seem unthinkable elsewhere -- especially in Southern California, where some communities have cut their water usage by as much as 40 to 50 percent, the state water board said.
Turf removal has been one of those steps. In July, about 2.5 million square feet of turf was torn out of the ground from residential properties in Southern California, or more than 1,600 front lawns. Commercial properties there removed an additional 4.7 million square feet of turf during the same time period, an amount equivalent to about 82 football fields.
No picture in article
Link: http://www.wunderground.com/news/californians-cut-water-use-historic-drought-20140911
No comments:
Post a Comment