The Town Trying to Pump Billions of Gallons of Water to Their Desert Community

New rule: no golf courses in the middle of the fucking desert

I'm pretty certain that growing grass in the desert is the definition of waste.

I live her talking about how “we can’t have kids playing soccer in the dirt” when literally millions around the globe do exactly that, some of them producing the best players

Ugly, car-centric, unaffordable, sub-urban single family homes surrounded by golf courses in the desert. There is a tremendous amount of heat-sucking pavement with lawns in the front and back yards. I'm disgusted.

"we conquered nature'"- idiotic last words.

Living in deserts is something people have been doing since basically always, but living in a desert and expecting to have grass straight from a landscaping magazine and a green golf course is absolute insanity.

It is 100% absurd to pump water to that community. If you want to live in a desert you should accept your “quality of life” will be lower than other climates (no water usage on frivolous uses like landscaping).

They're talking about needing water. This dude is playing on a golf course. Wow.

Golf courses in the middle of a friggin’ desert should be illegal. This just represents the selfishness and short sightedness of too many people in this country.

Golf is quite possibly one of the worst sports for the environment

Here we are a year later, with the Southwest experiencing a horrific drought. All the SW states are in a water crisis. This was never a good idea. Now, you see the outcome.

I have a simple solution to this problem: STOP DEVELOPING!! The southwest used to be a nice place until developers came in and ruined it and people being stupid by not researching what can happen. They think they are entitled to do what they want without reading between the lines. It just blows my mind.

"We've conquered nature." - Such arrogance.

This is just more rich people wasting money and resources for their own pleasure at the expense of everyone else.

I grew up not far from this town, in fact I was born at the hospital across the street from the Saint George Temple. The county has a major problem with oriental grass. Most people I know would either flood water it or use sprinkler irrigation. The amount of grass that is grown simply to make landscaping look cool is astonishing. They really need to take a page out of Las Vegas’ playbook. However the biggest abuser here is California. Ask someone from SoCal where their water comes from, they’ll tell you it comes from upstate, the Sierra Nevada mountains. They don’t realize how much of it is pulled from the Colorado river. California needs to do a much better job with educating their general population on where their water comes from. And also cut the amount of farming in the south, at least for a little while until the basin has enough time to recover.

I live in Northern California and we're going a through major water situation here. Often homes still have beautiful green lawns. I'm curious when, or why we haven't started to utilize artificial grass turfs yet in landscaping. Not only will the lawn be green year-round but it will also reduce emissions due to fewer people mowing their yard

Americans: choose to live in the middle of a desert confused why there is no water

As someone who’s lived in the desert, I can say that there are many landscaping techniques that look amazing and don’t require any lawns. We NEED to drink water. We don’t need lawns. 👍

I live in Utah and this is a misuse of water. I've condemned my lawn because its a waste of fresh water. We're in a desert and you have to live with that realization. Stop wasting what we barely have on something so insignificant. Move to Florida or something.

He actually said, “We’ve conquered nature…” And Mother Nature said “hold my beer”…