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Old 06-05-2017, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Toymeister View Post
To correct an earlier poster, you ARE NOT being directed to reduce water by ANY percentage. You are ordered to water on a certain day. That should reduce water consumption but it is not ordered.
However, by restricting watering to 1 day/week, it automatically reduces consumption. There is no point in running your sprinklers twice as long on 1 day---it just creates run-off, a soggy mess and lawn fungus. And to play devil's advocate, are the bottling plants cutting back to 3 days/week???????