Salt Lake County wants to save millions of gallons of water annually by swapping out some of its useless grass for less-thirsty landscaping.
Unveiled at the County Council meeting Tuesday, a new proposal calls for converting 132 county-owned park strips and parking lot islands from turf to water-smart plants that require less irrigation and maintenance.
Mayor Jenny Wilson, who was not at the meeting, said in a statement that the county’s swelling population already spawned a need for conservation, but the“This is one of many long-lasting conservation solutions,” she said, “that will help protect our residents’ quality of life, our watershed, and the future of theMichael Shea“One of the reasons we’re looking at them,” he said, “is, of course, they’re huge water hogs.
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