de-salination. meantime, the call to use less puts fresh scrutiny on thirsty industries like goff, especially after an arizona republic investigation found 30 to 50% of courses here use more than their share of water with little oversight. state records show that the water cops of arizona have issued punishment against a golf course exactly twice in the last 20 years. so it s pretty obvious that from the feds down to the locals, people aren t exactly lining up to be the tough sheriff desperately needed to tame water use in the wild west. i don t golf. so i don t feel a need to defend golf. but i will say this, people focus on it because it s visible. but there are lot of things about what we do, what we consume, what we eat, what we wear, that are also very water
obvious people aren t exactly lining up to be the sheriff needed to tame water use in the wild west. i don t golf. so i don t feel a need to feel golf but people focus on it because it s visible. but there are lots of things what we do and consume and eat and wear that are also very water intensive. i don t think in terms of we don t have water but what do we have enough water for? do we want to grow cotton? subdivisions or high density development that is more efficient? those are the conversations we need to have. for example, katherine says about four time it is water to grow an acre of cotton than a subdivision on an acre of lapd. 10% of arizonans golf.