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Lawns only use about 3.5 to 5% of the water used in California. Focusing on saving that water isn’t going to help much. https://ucanr.edu/sites/UrbanHort/Water

• ceejayoz 5y ago
  Using 5% of your water on something entirely optional seems like a good place to start cutting.
  • finiteseries 5y ago
    If targeting California homeowners of all the loud, politically active groups of people to achieve an absolute best case scenario of 5% gains is a good way to start, you’re not going to finish.
• apcragg 5y ago
  Sure, but it will help some. There is no silver bullet for solving our water resource problems. It is going to take a massive patchwork of partial solutions to even approach something resembling a solution. Balking at small changes is a sure way to ensure that we never make progress. In the post-script of the 2016 update to the book, Cadillac Desert, Mark Reisner makes the point that during the time L.A. County's population increased 40%, it's water usage remained constant due to it's water conservation efforts. That is huge not just for water resources but also CA's greenhouse gas targets. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to pump water from the Delta down to southern California and over the mountain ranges that encircle Los Angels.