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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Adam Todd wrote:
> At 01:43 PM 26/02/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
>>>> Whenever I play golf I have great annoyance at one of the $1M+ 
>>>> houses that overlooks the golf course having a feature water wall 
>>>> flowing from one level of their garden in to the swimming pool.  I 
>>>> acknowledge that it is almost certainly recirculating, but I can 
>>>> just imagine the unnecessary evaporation that is being promoted.
>>>
>>> And you're concerned even though you play golf on a well-watered course?
>>
>>
>> Yes the course is well watered - from the city's recycled water 
>> system, and from bore water.
> 
> 
> Doesn't sucking up the bore water lower the water table and increase 
> salinity?

Yes see
<http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/soe/soe2006/chapter5/chp_5.4.htm#5.4.24>

As a Golfer, Ex-hockey player and gardener I find the astro turf
suggestion an abomination!

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