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Environmental Horticulture10-03-07 | News

Environmental Horticulture

Household spending on water for yard plants was $361 million per year and total spending on yards was $3.6 billion.

Since 91 percent of Californians live in urban and suburban areas, the successful collaboration between UC Riverside and its turf industry partners provides essential research critical to water conservation and land use decisions affecting the development and use of safer playing surfaces for athletic fields, recreational uses in urban parks and lower utility costs for residential and commercial landscaping.

A 1996 study published in HortScience, Volume 35 (6) October 2000 found:

California had 679,426 acres, or 1,061 square miles of residential lawns.
8.8 million households maintained gardens and other planted areas.
Household spending on water for yard plants was $361 million per year and total spending on yards was $3.6 billion.
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