LOWER MAINLAND (NEWS1130) - Better set the alarm clock a little earlier if you have a big lawn.
Metro Vancouver is banning evening-time lawn sprinkling.
Starting in June, people with lawns will only be allowed to sprinkle them in the mornings, between 4 and 9 a.m.
Tim Stevenson, who heads Metro's water committee, says during the summer the water in local reservoirs gets drained quickly. "There's a lot of wasted water, particularly in the summer. People water their lawns continually when it's simply not needed," he points out.
"We're hoping to convince people in fact to not water their lawns at all in the summer time, and to let them grow in that beautiful brown colour," he remarks.
Offenders won't be penalized this summer. Enforcement will begin in 2012.
Also this year, each home will now have three, instead of two, days allotted for lawn sprinkling each week. Even numbered homes will now have Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays to water, while odd numbered homes will have Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.