Residents of a Green Valley neighborhood are voicing their concerns over plans to remove grass from their community park, a move driven by Assembly Bill 356 and the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s (SNWA) efforts to conserve water by eliminating nonfunctional turf. The SNWA defines nonfunctional turf as irrigated grass that does not provide functional use. However, neighbors near Wingbrook Avenue argue that the grass in their park is functional. … The SNWA asserts that removing nonfunctional turf will help reduce Colorado River consumption and protect the community’s water supply.

Other water conservation news:

• KGNU (Boulder, Colo.): Podcast: We don’t get much rain in Colorado. How can we make the most of the rain we get?
• The San Fernando Valley Sun: New year, new free yard: LADWP offers no-cost, water-saving landscape transformations