Landscape Architecture Resource

by Matthew Sandink

Water conservation appears to be becoming the new “Global Warming.” While there is always two or more sides to any argument, we should all want to conserve water as water is one of the two substances we absolutely cannot live without (the other being oxygen.) Water use reduction in the landscape is an area of water conservation where we can make easy changes now without any significant negative impact upon the landscaping industry. While it’s true that many articles written about the state of the environment tend to demonize one group over another, water is used and abused by every single group, company, country and individual in the world and the responsibility for it’s protection lies with all of us.

In landscape water use reduction, as in all water conservation, the focus is usually placed on mitigating the over-use of this precious resource without fully understanding the “other” problems associated with over watering.