Well I votes Stop watering lawns, as I have not watered my lawn in the last five years I can tell you it does turn brown in the summer, (brown, hell it turns into a desert) I do have some plants that I will water once a week but not many.
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Grains
Secondly...I think Florida and Alabama need to work with us...they are still taking water from us and don't even have water restriction days on when they can water their lawn/plants/etc. They can do it whenever and I think they should have to help out and should have restrictive days/times as well.
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Part of the problem is not everyone is informed as to what is happening in someone else's yard/state, I have lived in Florida for the last 25 years, and in the last 10 years there have been water restriction days imposed on most of us during the summer months if not longer, now the last 2 years I've been under water restriction days all year long, they review and reissue the plan every 4 months or so, but most of the city's have there own codes that are in place all year long.
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Extended water restrictions limit lawn watering to once per week.
extending the modified Phase II (Severe Water Shortage) restrictions through September 30, 2008.
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Water Restrictions
And you might find this a good read.
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The Drought of 1998-2002: Impacts on Florida’s Hydrology and Landscape
During the 1998-2002 drought, ground-water levels at many wells across the State declined to elevations not seen in many years. At some wells, ground-water levels reached record lows for their period of record.
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CIRC1295 - The Drought of 1998-2002: Impacts on Florida’s Hydrology and Landscape
As a side note: there were five wells that went dry in my community this year, and it relay pisses me off to see "golf courses, lawns, car washing" when my neighbors wells are running dry.
