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Arid Southwest Cities? Plea: Lose the Lawn

Quoted: ?The era of the lawn in the West is over,? said Paul Robbins, the director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. ?The water limits are insurmountable, unless the Scotts Company develops a genetically modified grass that requires almost no water. And I?m sure it?s keeping them up at night.?