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Committee amends and advances ‘water-wise landscaping’ bill after extensive stakeholder input
Summary
Senate Bill 305, a water-wise landscaping amendment limited to state facilities, was amended in committee and advanced with a divided committee reaction after considerable public testimony from water districts, agricultural groups and turf industry representatives.
Senator Stratton presented Senate Bill 305, a measure to codify terms such as "functional turf," "active use" and canopy definitions and to apply water-wise landscaping requirements initially to state facilities. "We are either in drought or we're preparing for the next one," Candace Hosniger, director of the Division of Water Resources, told the committee and supported the bill's goal to reduce outdoor municipal and industrial use; she said "60% of our municipal and industrial…
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