There are about 16,000 golf courses in the United States, and they all need huge amounts of water. The sport must take notice of limited resources and develop courses that are more in harmony with the environment.
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PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
April 17, 2022 11:28 AM
This has been way too long a time in coming. While this step would be progress, we really need a closed loop economy which considers material and energy streams beyond plastic/hydrocarbons.
Gizelle K Monicco's comment,
April 19, 2022 12:19 PM
As unfortunate as it is, seeing overflowing trashcans and just pure trash almost everywhere is CA is very common. Living in Los Angeles, by downtown, I can say that I see my daily share of trash almost everywhere I look, and a lot of it is plastic bottles or plastic products. We can definitely reduce that
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Water, water, everywhere...or at least for Golf Courses.
Here are some more California-centric and more recent numbers:
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140404/how-southern-california-golf-courses-are-managing-water-use-during-a-drought
http://www2.gcsaa.org/gcm/2005/oct/pdfs/green_67-72_oct.pdf
The latter suggests that for SoCal courses we are using something like 350,000 or so gallons per day, but the stated restrictions suggest golf courses are using something like 20% less water in recent months owing to the scarcity of water. This would put such courses at something like 280,000 gallons per day.