Anne_Dwyer's Blog

Anne,

We get most of our water here from the Hillsborough river. Tell me again where that water ends up? RIGHT! In the bay! What we need is more reservoirs to hold some of that water.
Conserving water is one thing but saving it is another. No one has ever been able to explain to me why water falling on my lawn as rain, goes back into the aquifer and sprinkler water doesn't?

Robin,

Not if you water at night. That evaporation thing is a myth. An amount of rain water evaporates over a given period of time exactly the same as sprinkled water.

If I'm watering at a rate of 1"/hr and across the street, a freak cloud is dropping rain at the same rate, how could evaporation be different? It's still water.

A fact is this.....A healthy lawn loses less water to evaporation than a dry lawn where soil is exposed to the sun.

I still say we need more reservoirs!

The City and County governments who impose these water restrictions are also your biggest violators.

We do need reservoirs to save the water but you also need people to make a conscience effort to their part in conserving water. Just because you have a timer set for a particular day and/or time, doesn't just make it alright. If you receive 2" of rain any given day, then your lawn should be good for a week. All it takes is a conscience effort to go and turn the timer off.

mmustangg, did I read correctly? Your water pressure is intentionally dropped at night time? Is this something that the City you live in does on a regular basis? If so, that really sucks! I've never heard of that happening before. We have a couple of wells on the property, so in that aspect, I guess we are luckier than most. It would take quite some time before City water would ever reach out where we live. I hope your water bill at least reflects the water that's kind of taken away from you.

I don't water my grass. When it rains it gets watered when it doesn't it goes brown. When it rains again, it goes green again.

My husband and I also had enough sense not to move into a subdivision w/idiotic rules about keeping your grass green or getting a fine. We bought an older home with well-established grass.

hehehehehehe..... It's Florida. It's either "Brown Grass" time or "Green Grass" time.

MoonOwl