Impactscommons.wikimedia.org Akin Olla: This heatwave is a reminder that grass lawns are terrible for the environment Lawn grass takes up 2% of all land in the United States. If it were a crop, it would be by far the single largest irrigated crop in the country.
Newsletterwww.flickr.com Millions must cut water use in drought-stricken California Southern California’s gigantic water supplier took the unprecedented step Tuesday of requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one day a week as drought continues to plague the state.
