Metro Vancouver bans evening-time lawn sprinkling
Dousing the lawn will now have to happen in the early morning
Renee Bernard Mar 22, 2011 23:41:03 PM
LOWER MAINLAND (NEWS1130) - Better set the alarm clock a little earlier if you have a big lawn. Metro Vancouver is banning evening-time lawn sprinkling.
Starting in June, people with lawns will only be allowed to sprinkle them in the mornings, between 4 and 9 a.m.
Tim Stevenson, who heads Metro's water committee, says during the summer the water in local reservoirs gets drained quickly. "There's a lot of wasted water, particularly in the summer. People water their lawns continually when it's simply not needed," he points out.
"We're hoping to convince people in fact to not water their lawns at all in the summer time, and to let them grow in that beautiful brown colour," he remarks.
Offenders won't be penalized this summer. Enforcement will begin in 2012.
Also this year, each home will now have three, instead of two, days allotted for lawn sprinkling each week. Even numbered homes will now have Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays to water, while odd numbered homes will have Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
I saw timers that can set to shut down automatically after some time...but not the one that can turn on automatically wor...
As they take away the evening hour, but add one more day...it's ok lor...
I just hate to see people wasting drinking water sprinkling 24 hours a day.
It is very inexpensive to buy a timer (or an alarm) if the green is so important
to them
發表於 2011-3-23 00:41
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