This industry article gives us an update on efforts to stay in business while keeping the greens, uh, green.

In golf-rich areas like the Coachella Valley, near Palm Springs, the 120 courses there consume 17 percent of all water used. In Las Vegas, its 57 courses use 7.6 percent… Yet even where golf courses rely upon effluent, or recycled water, their use is subject to public scorn for their presumed wastefulness. Increasingly, courses in arid areas are expected to wean themselves from public well water and aquifers and rely upon recycled water.

In an earlier post, I noted that the $7 billion golf industry uses one percent of California’s water while the $32 billion agricultural industry uses 75 percent of the State’s water. You decide which industry could afford to use a little less water.

Bottom Line: As usual, scarcity is pushing industry to find creative solutions. I sure hope that bureaucrats can be that creative!