Landscapes and water conservation

Forest Ecology and Management, 2013
Abstract Forest ecosystems play an important role in water conservation yet forest plantations are considered detrimental because of their high water use. The current worldwide trends of reduction in natural forest and expansion of forest plantations increases the need for forest managers to contribute to water conservation, implementing management ...
Carolina B Rodrigues, Silvio Ferraz
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New Directions in Lawn and Landscape Water Conservation

Journal - American Water Works Association, 2006
This article presents outdoor water use as a growing conservation challenge facing the United States. Roughly 8 billion gallons of water per day are devoted to lawn and landscape irrigation, a volume equivalent to 14 billion six‐packs of beer. Forward‐thinking water‐saving strategies to address these issues are presented.
Amy Vickers
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Assessing Residential Outdoor Water Conservation Potential Using Landscape Water Budgets

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE, 2022
C Prakash Khedun, Alan C Lewis
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Conformity and Conservation: Evidence from Home Landscaping and Water Conservation

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021
How do consumers value conformity, and what are the implications for conservation policy? In this article, we study conformity in homeowners’ landscaping choices—which have important consequences for water consumption—for housing parcels throughout a large arid American city.
Jesse Burkhardt +3 more
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6. clean water
15. life on land
13. climate action

11. sustainability
water conservation
2. zero hunger

conservation
agriculture general
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