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Posts tagged “drought”

8 Ways to Keep Your Garden Happy During a Drought
Planet Green

Having trouble keeping your plants happy during a drought? There are ways to get your garden through heat and dry spells without keeping the sprinklers on all the time…...

Blogging New York Times Magazine: A Tall, Cool Drink of ... Sewage?

Little did we know: A new plant in Fountain Valley, Ca, the Orange County Groundwater Replenishment System, is filtering the stuff you flush down the toilet and sending it back to the tap (with a fe...

Calculating the Savings of a Dual-Flush Toilet

We've been trying to figure out whether it makes economic sense to replace an old 1.6 gallon per flush toilet that needs repair with a nifty new dual flush model. Given the drought here in California...

GardenWatch: It Begins

Behold our glorious garden. Well, it's not so glorious yet, but with a bit of help from our readers and some hard work on our behalf, we're pretty sure we can turn it around. The main problem right ...

Drought in California

It's been the driest year in California in a long, long time. We've had the driest spring in the past 150 years, and while we've generally been enjoying the weather, paradise comes with a price. Wat...