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If the home elects to maintain a landscape, which is the source for doubling residential consumption every summer, incorporate xeriscape design, limit lawn area to shaded zones, plant select shade trees (requires some water but provides shade and lowers water demand in surrounding area. Use drip irrigation. Greywater use is a more reliable source than extensive rainwater capture investment. Yes collect and use rainwater  simply and passively but if it was raining sufficiently to irrigate a water hogging landscape materials you wouldn't be in a water scarcity situation. My response is in the context of arid land, adaptive response to drought. The measures for water conservation are not the same for water emergency shortage. Hopefully the prior will avert the later. :)

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Aqueously,  Joshua