With water shortages, water scarcity and droughts causing problems in various regions all over the globe, individuals, governments, local municipalities and business are looking for ways to conserve water.
This has never been more important than in California, where the drought persisted for four years already, prompting consumption cuts of 25% being enforced. While individuals have resorted to pulling up lawns and putting down gravel, not bathing and taking shorter showers, and planting flowers and plants that do not require a lot of watering, some public areas have had to be very innovative.
Can Dodgers Stadium teach us How to Save Water?
We could all take a tip from four iconic Los Angeles landmarks on how to still look good while saving water.
Dodger Stadium, Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills, the Getty Centre, and Exposition Park have all taken some innovative steps to conserve water:
Dodgers Stadium
Before the drought there was no need to apply any supplemental irrigation to the trees and plants surrounding the ballpark since the eighties, but Chaz Perea, Dodgers landscape manager said that a lot of mature trees are now dying back and many have been lost.
Dodgers is trying out an experimental device that pulls moisture out of the air and cools it to produce water droplets in an effort to save the sumac, acacia, walnut and eucalyptus trees. Via the process of condensation, the machine can generate one hundred gallons of water in a few days, which is enough to keep many trees on life support during the drought.
The Dodgers have also installed a water-saving irrigation system on the field that measures underground moisture levels, and have installed low-flush and waterless toilets throughout the 56,000-capacity stadium and have also replaced many of the groundcovers with mulch.
Dodger Stadium is the largest and third oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball and one of the four icons of Los Angeles.
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