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ED’S COMMENT
SAVE SOUTH AFRICA’S WATER
he September issue of Landscape citizens just do not take saving water
SA is our irrigation feature, and the seriously. They seem to think that as long
Temphasis is on saving water, as as water comes out of their taps, there’s
always. Take a look at our two irrigation no problem!
articles, as well as the article entitled Their complete lack of awareness and
“Hydrozoning with Colour”, which looks care can still be seen when pavements are
at grouping plants according to their cleaned by hosepipes instead of brooms,
water needs in order to save water. Within and leaking pipes are ignored for days on
the three zones of low, medium and high end. So not only is it a consumer problem,
water zones, colourful plants are available it’s a municipality problem too. There just
to enhance gardens and landscapes, being seems to be no effort to get the water
water wise all the time. authorities to act with a sense of urgency.
Despite the fact that South Africa is Please play your part, spread the word, Karyn Richards
an extremely water scarce country, its and save South Africa’s water! Editor
