The article states:
If local governments agree, pool-filling will be allowed and home and business owners will be able to hand-water landscaping and flower gardens for 25 minutes a day, between midnight and 10 a.m., on a three-day-a-week schedule. Watering with sprinklers would still be banned, except for watering newly installed landscapes.

Well, at least its hand-watering, and only durin' night and morning.  Sounds reasonable, given their recent rains.

If the drought continues, the restrictions will probably be put back in place.

Watering lawns is a major waste of water and should be prohibited.  If you grow native plants they generally don't need water, because they evolved to grow in your climate by living off rainwater.  Of course they'll need some during a drought, which raises this issue: what's more important, having enough water to drink and for wildlife and ecosystems, or watering lawns and aesthetic gardens?

And I didn't even mention swimming pools, which are not only a huge waste of water but contribute to chemical pollution (chlorine, etc.).  Humans better get their heads out of their butts and get a grip on reality.  These lifestyles are so ridiculously destructive they would be laughable if they weren't destroying things.

Georgia legistlations just posted a bill where they intend to redraw the Georgia state line, to take over a river in Tennessee.

Yeah, if only those kids were standing around with parched tongues that are covered in brown dust all summer long...then the IPCC "predictions" would have some credibility.

But a bunch of people happily watering their lawns and diving into the pewwlll does not an apocalypse make...

I was introduced to the grassroots movement "LAS" while still in college and am the proud chairmen of the NC chapter. (all tongue in cheek here).

"Lawns Are Stupid" has been a low-key but active program for ten years or more! Join today! Just say "no" to endless square yards of miserably useless turfgrass hybrids that serve no purpose! Plant flowers, bushes, vegetables! You bought the land, why not make it interesting to look at and invite some wilder neighbors in to brighten up your day?

Let the lawns die. Mr. Governor. This is not Great Britain and we are not the nobility. It was a silly idea to begin with and it's even more ridiculous today!

Quote:

"I'm trusting people to do the right thing."

Ha ..... Ha .......

Was the guy laughing when he said that ????