How to save water in garden?

[cntrlwagdnr]

We are very lucky to be on an irrigation water system. One fee for the whole year. So we have automatic sprinkle systems. In fact your front yard is required by the city to be landscaped and irrigated. We live in high dessert shrub steppe country. It doesn't rain much here anyway, but this year we had quite the drought. However there was so much snow pack in the mountains, there weren't even any end of season irrigation restrictions.

 

[Sean Regan]

I'd agree, saving water can be important, if you aren't in an area which often has too much.

Here in the north-west of England, we often have more than enough, any surplus eventually ends up in the sea.

Unfortunately, there is no infrastructure to move water in volume from the areas with too much to the areas with not enough.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Unfortunately, there is no infrastructure to move water in volume from the areas with too much to the areas with not enough.

I know it is not a proper nationwide system like the National Grid but you should read the history of the New River, which runs in through North London. Fascinating stuff, the things that can be achieved by a man with a vision.