A short post having just returned from the Southwest. I’ve learned it takes between 2200 to 3500 gallons of water to support each single game of golf played in a desert environment.
This, in an American West of shrinking aquifers and a world of growing food shortages and record levels of starvation. I’m seeing a real problem with golf, at least the kind that insists on green grass.
I tend to beat the drum of reducing our household consumption. But the problem is that we’d have to refuse 4 million glasses of restaurant water to replace what it takes to water one golf course for one day.
I understand the joy and passion of golf and outdoor sports in general. I’m all for them, yet there is always more than one way to do a given thing. Green golf courses need to become as much a thing of the past as the right to smoke in public rooms.
Photo courtesy of Ryner12
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