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Question by Cordelia: How do dry climate areas like Palm Springs justify all those golf courses?
I just got back from a week at our timeshare in Palm Springs area and am wondering how such a dry climate can justify having over 65 + golf courses. I wonder how much water one golf course demands to keep green. Does the water get recycled?? Could there be a better way of doing this. Why not just use artificial turf? I don’t golf, just enjoy the warm weather, pool, tennis, etc.
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Answer by itsmyopinionsothere
How do they justify? In one word………………………MONEY
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They have underground pipes that water it (if I remember correctly). They could just be sprinklers. lol
Im thinking they probably use alot of sprinkling systems and fertilizations. Around where I live, that is what they do when it is dry.
I don’t beleive that they have your concern in mind. Its all about the dollar. I went two years ago and couldn’t beleive all the misters that town has. I know it helps keep the temp down, but like you, I wonder about conserving water.
How do they justify it? Answer: they don’t justify it. In point of fact, there is no justification for it. Palm Springs is living on borrowed time; the water used for all those golf courses (and lawns and drinking water, in that order, it seems) all comes from an underground aquifer that is rapidly depleting.
I’m not really sure what Palm Springs and Palm Desert are going to do in the coming years, as the aquifer reaches crisis levels; they’re trying to take more surface water, but the fact is that they’re also importing more and more water from the Colorado River aqueduct, itself under enormous pressure from the skyrocketing water demand. There simply hasn’t been enough rainfall to replace what people are using.
Some argue that the factor limiting growth is energy, but in some places it will be as simple as not having enough water. Certainly, time is running out on the golf course paradises of southern California (and Arizona, and Nevada, and Texas…)
Good thing you just like the warm weather! I don’t think that’s going away
Because people like to play golf and are willing to pay to do so.