We cannot have that much water for 50 golf courses. Thanks for your response. I've worked with many golf course superintendents and gained a great respect for their ability to conserve water. The average golf courses in the Las Vegas area use around 7.6 acre feet per acre annually, or 50 percent less than homeowners. Fielder still finds the water bills to be costly.
Golf courses pay the highest water rates anywhere in the western United States.
Believe me, this alone forces us to conserve water. This tells us how much water evaporates from the soil and by transpiration through the plant tissue. The weather stations collect this information to achieve the lowest ET rates possible. These technicians also make daily adjustments to watering schedules, such as when it rains. I am sure these figures have doubled with the surge of golf in the past four years.