About this Site

THE FUTURE of the West depends upon our ability to conserve its dwindling water supply. Chance of Rain the blog builds on reports from two years touring rural California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico to witness firsthand the impact of our thirst on a vast and fragile region.

Reports from this period appeared throughout the summer of 2008 in the Las Vegas Sun and covered a water war still gripping Nevada and Utah, in which a modern Mulholland hopes to run a 300-mile pipeline into the wild heart of the Great Basin and pump its groundwater to Las Vegas.

The recession has brought brief reprieve in the metastasis of cities such as Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Diego and the expectation by their developers that water will be found to serve them, no matter what. But the long-term solution must lie in controlling growth, conservation and saner water-sharing policies.

Which brings us to a potentially constructive flip side to the gloom and doom of water wars. Given that roughly 50% to 70% of urban water usage in our palmy western suburbs goes outside, garden conservation is the most immediate tool that urban westerners have to manage a shrinking water supply. Over the years, I have contributed dozens of times to the Los Angeles Times on the joys and revelations of dry gardening, but never routinely. From June 6, 2009 through December 2011, this became an online blog and periodic print-edition column, “The Dry Garden.”

The water and garden work are showcased here, with tabs at the top of the page. The journalism archives referenced top and right are for editors or subjects to check if they wish. Browsers are welcome.

The site is evolving. All suggestions about and/or for the contents are welcome to emily.green [at] mac.com. The photograph of the crimson Salvia greggii in the banner art is by Diane Cu. This site would not exist without her assistance, or that of her partner,  Todd Porter, and the thrilling example that they set with their blog WhiteOnRiceCouple.

Emily Green

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