Golf courses.
Why does their grass have to be alive?
I'm currently seeing a lot of dead lawns in nice neighborhoods, but even local hackers courses are nothing but acres of green.
Seems like an easy way for golf courses to voluntarily virtue signal that during this emergency drought in CA they're taking it seriously and doing their part.
If there was a real emergency even golfers would have to deal with dead grass.
Golf courses recycle/reuse their water in a closed system
Any sauce on what percent of golf courses nationwide currently use recycled water in a closed system?
What little I have read about it says that more golf courses would use this system, but that it’s expensive to set up. The number that I saw was 13% of golf courses use a system like you’re describing.
But I personally don’t know a lot about golf or being a greenskeeper, so I leave it up to the experts, like Carl Speckler:
“This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff.”
I’ve been looking to play a course like this.
A typical golf course needs 300,000 gallons of water EVERY DAY. That is insane. Imagine paying for it. Maybe some get cut-rates from the city, or have their own wells, I dunno.
kindof a "tax the rich" mentality though, isn't it?
I'm not saying I'm pro-watering-golf-courses-in-a-drought, but your argument should be adjusted
The rich are the only ones who golf?
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