ASU researchers are working with Arizona water managers to develop a tool to encourage more sustainable landscaping.
Professor Daoquin Tong is with ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. She says they hope to create large-scale water savings for the Central Arizona Project region by identifying areas of nonfunctional turfgrass and offering sustainable landscaping alternatives.
To do that, Tong and her team will use spatial analysis to locate these grassy areas. Quantitative modeling will then help the team come up with how much water can be saved through certain landscape changes.
“So a lot of times we don't realize how much water we consume outdoors — our lawns, our grass and our vegetation,” she said.
She says the goal is to develop a dashboard for public use based on their findings.
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