Column: How much do you receive to replace your lawn in Utah — and why does it differ from city to city?
… [W]hile the majority of Utah’s water goes to agriculture, the share going to residential watering has been increasing over the decades. … That growth makes sense — as Utah adds more people and houses, of course residential water use increases too. But obviously, a limited supply of water remains, so if Utah let residential water use grow indefinitely, we’d find ourselves in trouble in the decades to come. … For current residents, you want to incentivize them to remove their lawns for much more water-wise landscaping. For future residents, you want to make the landscaping that surrounds homes in new developments as water-efficient as possible. … Naturally, you could just enact laws that do both of those things separately. But in an interesting piece of strategy, the Utah Legislature and the Division of Water Resources (DWR) have tied those two ideas together.
–Written by Salt Lake Tribune data columnist Andy Larsen.Other residential water use news:
