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California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative

A pedestrian crosses a median as traffic passes along San Vicente Blvd. The legislation prohibits using drinking water for purely decorative grass along roads, in medians and outside businesses and in common areas of homeowners associations. The legislation will make permanent a measure that California water regulators adopted last year during the drought — and readopted for another year in …

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Editorial: Say goodbye to grass that’s only there for looks. California can’t afford to waste water

The “bathtub ring” at Hoover Dam — pictured in in 2021 — reveals an alarming drop in water levels at Lake Mead in Nevada. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California estimates that there are 218,000 acres of turf in its service area and that 23% of it is nonfunctional — and just for looks. A companion bill, AB 1573, …

With the federal government calling for major cuts in water use to address the historic shortage on the Colorado River, the leaders of 30 agencies that supply cities from the Rocky Mountains to Southern California have signed an agreement committing to boost conservation, in part by pledging to target the removal of one especially thirsty mainstay of suburban landscapes: decorative …

California bans watering ‘nonfunctional’ grass in some areas, strengthening drought rules

The California water board is proposing a ban on watering ‘nonfunctional’ grass in some areas. “We need to activate Californians and really lean into the conservation that we’re needing to see,” said Joaquin Esquivel, chair of the state water board. “However, water agencies and golf courses need to evaluate whether other turf on a golf course property is functional or …

CARSON CITY, Nev. — In Sin City, one thing that will soon become unforgivable is useless grass. Sisolak said last week that anyone flying into Las Vegas viewing the “bathtub rings” that delineate how high Lake Mead’s water levels used to be can see that conservation is needed. The ban targets what the Southern Nevada Water Authority calls “non-functional turf.” …