Determining the Sustainable Approach

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So if we're in a place where we're concerned about that, maybe it's not so much about the storm water, but maybe it's more about the kind of efficient use of the water. So here we have irrigation systems, and we're putting sprinklers out into spray over big swaths of grassland, and imagine you're throwing water into the air and then about half of it evaporates before it even gets to the grass, like that just seems kind of crazy Well, if we take it even one step farther back, and we realize that water is often clean, potable water that has, you know, could be used in cooking and drinking it, that's very expensive water to just be tossing into the air like that. So perhaps there is an efficient system, maybe through drip lines or maybe through using cisterns to collect the water find ways to reuse rain water.

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