![]() The use of native plants lowers the necessity of watering as the vegetation has already adapted to thrive in the climate and does not require assistance with irrigation or fertilization. Assuming a water usage reduction of 30% it was found that a city can save roughly $2 million annually (however, this exact value is dependent on location). It was found that switching an average city park to more native vegetation in the region can lower irrigation usage by 30–50%. In Turkey, one of the first large scale xeriscaping evaluations was conducted. ![]() Xeriscapes can reduce water consumption by 60% or more compared to regular lawn landscapes. Water conservation and lower maintenance Xeriscaping helps preserve water for people and animals as it is more reliant on natural rainfall and minimal maintenance when compared to the current practiced greenspaces. Current climate conditions have increased the frequency of droughts, impacting the availability of fresh drinking water. Currently within the United States it was found that in arid climates (such as Arizona and Nevada) that 75% of households' potable water was used to water residential and urban lawns. Xeriscaping utilizes native/indigenous vegetation as opposed to store bought grass and imported plants to retain water and minimize supplemental irrigation. Xeriscaping has the potential to reduce water usage and maintenance, improve biodiversity, lower pollution, as well as mitigate heat within urban areas however, the effectiveness of this sustainable process has not been evaluated on a long-term large-scale basis. Similar terms and phrases include water-conserving landscaping, drought-tolerant landscaping, and smart scaping.Ĭacti are some of the low-water-consuming plants often used in xeriscaping. Because o is the most common connecting vowel in Greco-Roman vocabulary, xeriscaping is sometimes misspelled as xeroscaping. When used seriously, zero-scaping usually refers to a different type of low-water landscaping that uses very few plants or none at all. The term zero-scaping (or zeroscaping) is sometimes substituted for xeriscaping due to phonetic similarity. 4.4 Appropriate plant and zone selectionĭenver Water coined the term xeriscape in 1981 by combining landscape with the Greek prefix xero-, from ξηρός ( xēros), meaning 'dry'.2.3 Environmental and thermal discomfort remediation. ![]()
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