With water conservation some lawns are more equal than others

In the dry, rolling foothills of southern California you will find a community, gated to keep out thieving coyotes, called Rancho Santa Fe. Here residents are ostentatious not only in their homes and vehicles but also in their water consumption, five times the state average per capita, and they'll be damned if anyone will make them conserve that water even a little bit.

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People “should not be forced to live on property with brown lawns, golf on brown courses or apologize for wanting their gardens to be beautiful,” says resident Steve Yuhas, the Post reports. “We pay significant property taxes based on where we live. And, no, we’re not all equal when it comes to water.”

That's right. Despite the fact that everyone, in fact, does get their water from the same giant aqueduct system, that is not paid for by property taxes, Yuhas thinks any conservation is just deplorable.

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“I think we’re being overly penalized, and we’re certainly being overly scrutinized by the world,” Gay Butler says while out for a trail ride on her show horse, Bear. “It angers me because people aren’t looking at the overall picture. What are we supposed to do, just have dirt around our house on four acres?”

Yep, it is well known that in dry areas of the planet nothing but dirt prevails everywhere. The natural countryside just outside the massive gates of Rancho Santa Fe are not, in fact, covered with natural grasses and oak trees but are just dirt cleverly disguising itself.

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“I’m a conservative, so this is strange, but I defend Barbra Streisand’s right to have a green lawn,” Yuhas says. “When we bought, we didn’t plan on getting a place that looks like we’re living in an African savanna.”

That's right. Just because he was buying a house in the middle of an area with the same climate and similar vegetation to the African savanna Yuhas couldn't possibly have a house that looks like it would belong in its environment. That would just be crazy.

So, when August comes and communities are making touch choices, like banning more than three showers a week, they can always remember that in Rancho Santa Fe there is a man named Steve Yuhas who refused to cut back, at all.

via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1LdOirF