Scottsdale residents call for ban on lawns to save water

The City of Scottsdale is asking residents to cut back on non-essential water usage in order to save water.

However, if you look down at the comments posted on that article, many Scottsdale residents are suggesting a ban on lawns.

Of course, this doesn't surprise me.

The Scottsdale mentality is to hate their own citizens and neighbors, ignore and disrespect the concept of freedom, and ban anything and everything they like with total disregard to the legality or constitutionality of it all.

And, on top of it, the town is full of lazy indifferent people who will just sit back and take it. Not to mention little commie jackasses like the ones who are calling for a ban on lawns in order to save water. These are the kinds of people who get elected to HOA boards in order to serve their own self-interests and screw over everyone else in the process. Classic small-minded Scottsdale behavior: "I got mine, now you can't have yours."

Some things will never change....

Comments

[Joe Jacari]

Sounds like nosy Snottsdale residents are gleefully following Fidel Castro's Cuban model: have neighbor spy on neighbor, big brother style.

Meanwhile, the commie bureaucrats point their fingers, giggle and snicker at bickering little $30K Millionaire taxpayers.

Of course, in true Scottsdale fashion:

It's all good!

[war_shu_duck]

I have no problem with asking people to save water. Its when they start forcing people to do things I take issue with. When the day comes they starting fining people and having neighbor rat out neighbor. Prior to coming to Arizona I have never seem more waste people. I am not just talking about water. People here waste food, time, energy, ect ect. Besides pretending to be "Mr. Big" I don't see much the people of Arizona place value on. Education? No. Quality of life? No. Being decent human beings? No. Anyone who has spent any length of time here I am sure gets what I am trying to convey.

If Scottsdale really wants to motivate people to switch from grass to rock how about some incentive programs? By incentive I don't mean the typical Scottsdale approach of trying to hit you in your wallet.

[Andy]

Wars will be fought over water in 20 years. 73 percent of the earth is covered in water, but only 1 percent of it is drinkable.

Municipal governments need to plan cities better and control sprawl. When building cities in deserts things like lawns should be controlled. The world is not full of limitless resources and thus smart planning needs to happen. Clearly all of phoenix was terrible planned, not just scottsdale. What happens when we run out of water? I have no problem with people at least starting to think about the future and talk about the problems of water shortages.

Btw, when you buy bottled water, 1 liter of water from companies takes 4 liters of water. 3 liters of water go into making the plastic around the water.

[Frank Rumbauskas]

This is a bunch of fear-mongering b.s. Practical desalination technology exists and is ready to go, creating a limitless supply of drinkable fresh water from the oceans.

Of course, some wacko environmental group will probably fight it on the grounds that some species of bacteria will be affected by it.