There was a time when defiant Las Vegas residents and developers seemed determined to carpet over the entire desert with lush, green grass. In 1999, the Southern Nevada Water Authority set out to ...

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The Metropolitan Water District’s massive $340-million turf rebate program — which helped thousands of Southern Californians rip out their lawns in favor of drought-tolerant landscaping — was plagued ...

A popular water-saving rebate program that subsidized the cost of replacing lawns with more drought-friendly plants has run out of funding, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California said ...