Living Green Save Water

This weeks news that I found on the mysuncoast.com is about water and more importantly how much we should use it, especially for garden lovers out there.


The irrigation systems is used at many homes on the Suncoast to water their yards and plants. There is a problem with the system, which is that sometimes that don't always do the job. Debbie Shapiro of Sarasota discovered the extension service's irrigation Evaluation Program and used their expertise. Shapiro said that before her yard and garden did not get enough water from her sprinklers. Sometimes she said that "many of the heads were broken or spraying incorrectly." After going through her yard with these experts, her yard is now better and looks healthier (greener). The reason why it is even healthier is because she has a better understanding of how the irrigation system works. By capping some of the sprinkler heads that she did not use, expanding the use of more efficient micro-irrigation heads and repairing some of the broken heads. This is helping in a big way by saving a lot of water.

This is something that I think everyone should do. They should take a look at their yard, if you have a garden or not. If you have something to give water to your yard, it is best to check out everything. See if there are any broken sprinklers and maybe see if you limit how many you have. Basically notice how much water you are using, even too much water is bad for your yard. I know that some people might have their sprinklers on a setting and it would go on a timer. But I have seen some people that just leave their sprinklers running and wasting water. By doing that, not only is it a big waste of using water. But your are over water the yard and it is not going to make your yard greener than your neighbor.

the extension service is recommending people to keep the irrigation systems off and only use them when there has not been enough rain water. I agree with this 100%. Before we take more water from someplace else, lets us first let nature take care of watering the earth. Let us use more natural resorces than the sources by some company.  A quote from the extension service about the system "An irrigation system is not meant to replace rain water, it's meant to supplement rain water...and we forget that sometimes."



http://www.mysuncoast.com/content/living-green/story/Living-Green-Irrigation-evaluation-can-help-save/AXfG47TgQ0GJKf5giBCadQ.cspx