Eleventh in a series republished with permission from the San Diego County Water Authority‘s website. Once you’ve finalized your plans for a water-saving landscape, you’ll have some demolition work ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The city of Bend announced Tuesday that its water customers can now receive a Turf Removal Rebate to convert lawns into a low-water use landscape. The City Water Conservation ...

Lawns are symbols of Los Angeles’ past. In this series, we spotlight yards with alternative, low-water landscaping built for the future. On a closely packed street in Inglewood, where single-family ...

Mesa last week kicked off the removal of non-functional turf from over 50 parks and basins in an effort to reduce its water use. The project is expected to save over 5 million gallons of water ...

As more Californians tear out their lawns and plant drought-friendly gardens, many homeowners wonder how the effort will pencil out. In some areas, at least half of the daily water use is for lawns ...

To the handful of residents who thought they’d be able to keep artificial turf they installed in their front yards prior to the city solidifying its ban on fake grass last summer — think again. Some ...

The Colorado River’s precipitous decline pushed Arizona lawmakers to deliver Gov. Doug Ducey’s $1 billion water augmentation fund — and then some — late Friday, their final night in session. Before ...

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