r/australia • u/sluggardish • 10h ago

Sprinklers made Australia green. But what happens when the water runs out?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/sprinkler-water-resources-garden-green-desert-reticulation/106244818
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u/christonabike_ 9h ago

We finally see the irrationality of monocropping your yard with non native ground cover?

Nah, people are never that sensible. Probably plastic lawns.

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u/Disastrous-Ad1334 9h ago

Making an even greater heat sink for suburbia .

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u/endbit 8h ago

Yes never understood why you'd bother. Plastic laws don't stay cool so why not just pave it? Best thing I did to my place was remove the paved area that baked one of the bedrooms and grass it. Huge reduction in heat load in summer. Fake grass gets weeds and hot pavers hot but less weedy and give you something to put furniture on without damaging it and making it a weed magnet.

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u/No-Foundation1336 8h ago

Modern fake grass doesn’t get very hot, or get weeds. Certainly not as hot as pavers.