why so many water features in desert landscaping?
Curious to know why there are so many landscaping water features in the driest areas of our country such as Arizona and Nevada? Every housing development, shopping center, etc has a rocky waterfall or some stylish water pond with koi at its entrance. But yet this is the driest area of our country and water is (naturally) in short order. I find this curious…
Disgusting isn’t it. It’s more status than anything. "See I live in the desert and am not putting water on my landscape so I’ll dump it into a fountain that evaporates at an awful rate just because I can."
Originally they thought it would help cool the clime……..it actually made the environment more humid. Parts of Phoenix are very humid!!
Water features are a trademark of ancient landscapes/gardens, but the water remained mostly still and level……where it was for psychological cooling.
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