Tips For Saving Water For Your Landscaping
By Sandra Dinkins-Wilson, Tue Jan 10th
Do you find your water bill going up each month you water yourlandscaping along with the rest of your bills? You might evenquestion just how much water your landscaping really needs.Perhaps it's time for you to think about how to make yourwatering more efficient so you have beautiful landscaping butsave water as well.
To water our landscaping, we use either some type of automatedsprinkler system or a sprinkler that is dragged from spot tospot. Right from the big corporations right down to thehomeowner with just a speck of a lawn, most people use or wantto use some type of automated watering system. You have probablyseen water from automated sprinkler systems running off thegrass and running down the street. I don't know about you, buthere in the arid West, when I see this, it makes me quite angry.This even can be seen in droughts where a typical homeowner mayhave to water his plants with saved waste water from inside hishome. This is not exactly an efficient use of water. All aroundthe country there are problems with having clean water. It justdoesn't make sense to waste water.
Yet most landscaping owners use an inefficient and wastefulwatering system. Here are a few tips to make watering yourlandscaping more efficient and less wasteful.
Watering systems for your landscaping vary. Find one that ismost efficient for your needs. A good rule of thumb is that thelarger the water drop delivered and the closer to the ground thebetter it is. Using a system that delivers a fine spray up intothe air will lose much of the water to evaporation and to wind.
Surprisingly, hand held hose watering was found to be the mostwater-efficient way to provide moisture to your landscaping. Ituses 33% less water than the average household uses to watertheir plants.
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