01-09-2023, 11:09 PM
In between long periods of living in Utah, I lived 20 years in Arizona...10 years each in Tucson and Phoenix. Now those were REAL desert cities. Yeah, they had golf courses...but with grass varieties that could live with a lot less water and care. Ditto for the big companies (and churches) that had grass lawns. Less grass and more "natural" desert landscape and drip irrigation. And there were no snow capped mountains to provide annual runoff. Most of the water came from a very few reservoirs...and from piped in Colorado River water. Down there managing water was a religion and a harsh law.
Whenever I am heading out on an early morning fishing trip here in Utah I am amazed at all of the huge expanses of grass being watered virtually every day...even during or just after a rain storm. And in every neighborhood you can see water running down gutters and into the sewer system from over-watering lawns or water being otherwise wasted.
I can only imagine the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth if a few common sense water conservation measures were enacted here in Utah. "But...but...but...I just got my new riding mower." Everybody wants to save the GSL, but not if it impacts their water wasteful standard of living.
Look south to Las Vegas. They are literally on the verge of becoming a ghost town if Lake Mead gets any lower. We ain't that bad...yet. But who knows what wonderful weather patterns the future may hold?
Whenever I am heading out on an early morning fishing trip here in Utah I am amazed at all of the huge expanses of grass being watered virtually every day...even during or just after a rain storm. And in every neighborhood you can see water running down gutters and into the sewer system from over-watering lawns or water being otherwise wasted.
I can only imagine the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth if a few common sense water conservation measures were enacted here in Utah. "But...but...but...I just got my new riding mower." Everybody wants to save the GSL, but not if it impacts their water wasteful standard of living.
Look south to Las Vegas. They are literally on the verge of becoming a ghost town if Lake Mead gets any lower. We ain't that bad...yet. But who knows what wonderful weather patterns the future may hold?