I've been looking online and not finding much, but I'm wondering if there is something you can do to essentially “turn in” someone who wastes water. Case in point, my landlord and this house. Those in the area know that for the last 24 hours we have gotten roughly 3″ of rain, and probably more on the way tonight. That's in the last day. The last week or two, let alone month has seen literally tons of rain. However, none of this has stopped my idiotic landlord from caring about his yard, and get this…. watering it.

I guess two dogs living here now was just too much yard damage over the winter for this man, so he dug up every place a dog had pissed and planted new seed. This was last week. So far, he has watered every day. That's understandable as far as lawn care goes, but not when it's practically raining every day and you're getting free water in just the perfect slow and deep rains.

I came home today… in the rain…. and saw our yard… being watered.

I just about lost it. He was here, as he always is for the summer season, so I confronted him.

“Why are you watering the lawn?”

“To get my grass to grow.”

“It just rained about an inch earlier today, let alone the 2 last night, and the rain that's coming tonight. Isn't that a bit absurd?”

“Not to me. So long as I'm here, I'm gonna run the water to keep it going.”

So, I think in times of drought, some municipalities throughout the U.S. have enacted temporary water conservation rules barring you from doing stupid crap like that. But being spring and all, it's not exactly drought conditions so no such thing exists here. And it appears conservation and environmental issues you may have with your neighbors are just that and something you can only solve by talking with them.

There must be a different way. Either that or I'm just gonna have to stop giving this guy my buck, b/c I can't rightly support a moron like that. I mean it's pissed me off before that he waters constantly, before and after rains, and the lawn looks no better than anybody else's on the block who doesn't water, but this is too much.

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