It seems like available water resources should be a community's first guideline for development and sustainability. Especially if you haven't got any. It is mid-June, and Pinellas County is just now coming out of the worst drought in recorded history. It rained for the first time this year last Sunday. Many of our lakes are now fields.
Private wells are dry and the forty year-old hedge alongside our house is dying.
I last mowed the yard around Halloween of last year. True, the rains are starting to come back for the summer and our yard is looking better, but it will take months before fresh water levels return to normal. In the midst of all this, some of my neighbors water their lawns at every opportunity, as do the countless golf courses around the county. Because they can. And they can water today because various government agencies have worked long and hard to make sure that water comes out of that tap every time without fail.