Word: droughts
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...ironies, of course, begin to multiply as soon as a life comes unraveled: in retrospect, everything seems an augury. One night before, the local TV station had announced that the conditions -- 106 degrees heat, gale-force winds and drought-stricken hills -- were the best for a fire in 100 years. That day, at lunch, I had been talking with a friend whose mother had just died, about the pathos of going through old belongings. And when, at the optician's office that evening, my doctor stepped out to go and sniff at what he thought might be a fire...
...Sunbelters should not buy Astroturf just yet. Help may be on the way. Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a strain of grass so resistant to drought that in some locales, it may not need to be watered at all. The university's test patch, at a research center near Fort Lauderdale, is thick and green, even though it has received no water, except for an occasional rainfall, since March...
...enough to tap into subsurface moisture in some areas. That makes it perfect for places like Florida, where the water table typically lies no deeper than about 5 ft. Moreover, FX-10 seems to use the water it gets more efficiently than other St. Augustine varieties do. In the drought-parched university plots where more than 60% of the standard St. Augustine has died, the patch of FX-10 has expanded in size...
...project is funded in part by a $90,000 grant from the South Florida water management district, which is eager for a drought-resistant grass to be developed. Reason: officials estimate that half of the 800 million gallons of water delivered last year to the residents of the district's 16 counties was used to sprinkle lawns...
...there is trouble in paradise. A severe drought has plunged the city into a water crisis for the fourth consecutive year. City officials have hiked water-user fees as much...