A historic agreement to save the Colorado River by tearing up more grass is a small step, but a crucial one. awalkerinLA writes
, with successful demonstration projects in parched California communities that could help take the pressure off demand upstream. And even though backyards aren’t being targeted for mass-xeriscaping just yet, agencies have been boosting incentives for homeowners in the hopes they’ll do the right thing on their own; for example, L.A.’s Department of Water and Power, which services 681,000 customers and saw itsthis summer, just raised its turf-replacement rebate from $3 to $5 per square foot.
Still, comparing a sprinkler chugging across the turf-sown entrance to a suburban neighborhood twice a week with a half-acre of heavily irrigated cotton fields, the agreement’s aspirations sound like a literal drop in the bucket. But it’s not nothing, and the fact that the 30 percent figure was negotiated and agreed upon by nearly three dozen powerful agencies is a significant step in itself, says Sharon Megdal, director of the University of Arizona’s Water Resources Research Center.
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