Why water experts want Utahns to be ‘the lone weirdo’ when it comes to xeriscaping

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Getting rid of the grass here is essentially the easiest way to reduce water use without really any impact, which matters when Utah remains in severe and extreme drought categories at the start of the irrigation season.

, a style that requires little or no irrigation water. Most of the state’s new laws take effect Wednesday.

This graph shows the number of enrollments in the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District's "Flip Your Strip" program since 2018. Last year produced a record 463 applications. She adds that sprinklers must also be switched to a drip irrigation system that only helps plants that need it. The sprinkler replacement is the big water saver while focusing on only the plants that need water reduces weeds often unintentionally grown through overwatering.A pedestrian pass-through, a little walkway in the park strip, is another option people can use to reduce damage from people walking on park strips.

“Take control of the pieces that you can,” she said, noting online battles over who is to blame for water use in the state. “At the end of the day, we’re all using water and we have an obligation to be as efficient as we can. It’s really to benefit to have a yard that’s resilient because, otherwise, every time we have a drought they’re risking their landscape investment — that’s pretty frequent right now.”Meanwhile, Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson is willing to be the weirdo Bee describes.

They whittled down the options by looking for all the biggest park strips and parking lot islands with grass in them. What started as more than 2,000 possibilities eventually became 132 options totaling about three football fields in combined space in about 15 different municipalities.

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