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… They kind of sent us jumping through hoops,” recalls Buckwalter. “They wanted to see a plan that was colored in, they wanted photos of all the plants, they wanted to have a sample of the rock material that would be used or the specific mulch that would be used.”
State lawmakers addressed that issue with Assembly Bill 1881, the Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance, which keeps governments or HOAs from interfering with an owner’s plans to make their yards more water smart. The bill also sets new water-efficiency standards for residential and commercial construction projects.
Landscape codes aren’t the only problem. Zetland’s doctoral work looked into Peruvian coca production. He says that when he later began looking into the water market, “I found out that it’s just as weird and perverse as drugs and prostitution.”