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• Grass lawns shrink in Calif. drought
Officials estimate that up to 70 percent of a family's water bill is spent on landscaping. End of an affair? "Our love affair with the lawn may be coming to an end because if we're going to support all these people living here and all the homes, we're ...
• Gulf looks overseas for food needs
Lush urban landscaping and ambitious agricultural projects here and in Saudi Arabia — which once spent so much on farm subsidies that it exported surplus wheat — are quickly draining aquifers, including some that are millennia old and cannot be ...
• It Pays to Go Green in a Down Economy
Someday people are going to look back and wonder what the heck Americans were thinking using clean, processed tap water for irrigation and landscaping. The technology solutions range from simple to high tech. The key is to conserve a precious ...
• Save Water, Make Money
Soon after the Texas drought hit the landscaping around his new house, engineer Tom Watson, 53, decided to develop an irrigation system that uses internet controls and landscape modeling along with real-time, site-specific weather monitoring to ...
• The cost of a frosty V-Day
It's also good news for hardware stores that sell snow blowers and salt, as well as those in the landscaping business. "Landscapers work all summer long mowing lawns and they remove snow in the winter. But this year, that source of income wasn't ...