News: Is Gold the New Green?
Channel: TBC News Video
Date: 11/07/2015

The long, hot summer of 2013 was bearing down on Bakersfield when Francis Mayer decided he couldn’t in good conscience continue to dump hundreds, maybe thousands, of gallons of water on his sloping front lawn.

California was already two years into what would eventually be recognized as the most extreme drought the state had ever experienced — at least since humans invented green lawns in dry, desert regions.

“I let my lawn die, to the chagrin of my neighbors,” said Mayer, who is no relation to this reporter.

Read the complete story on Bakersfield.com

Edited by John Farrand for TBC Media
July 2015