The Tucson City Council is set to vote on banning new developments from using ornamental turf and would require them to use water-sense fixtures.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Saving water is a way of life for Bob Cook. He’s been living sustainably for about thirty years and is a strong supporter of water conservation and using technologies to achieve water reduction.“The roof collects it in the gutter and it flows down the spout and into this,” he said about his cistern.
Water-sense fixtures are products that the Environmental Protection Agency says are 20 percent more water efficient compared to others in the same category.“If we’re going to sustain the population that we have, we’re going to have to use water more efficiently,” he said. The City Council is also proposing an amendment that would ban ornamental grass turf. That kind of turf isn’t the artificial kind that is installed in places like football fields, but is a kind of real grass that needs to be watered.
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