How a pond 💥 SAVES 💥 your LAWN and landscape in DROUGHT | PLEASE WATCH this critical video !! 🎥

Can a pond help save your landscape during drought conditions? YES!
This is likely to be the single most important video I have ever released on my channel, and if you listen through this, you'll understand why.
Studies have proven that ponds save approximately up to 68% on water usage per square foot of lawn replaced. Lawns, while beautiful, are NOT ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly. Grass consumes more natural resources than you could ever imagine. From watering, to fertilizing, to upkeep and yes, evaporation while watering.
The year is 2022 and we are seeing MASSIVE lakes dry up due to irresponsible landscaping. The responsible thing to do is to replace your lawn with a pond, and to irrigate your landscape with pond water.
This video shows you the benefit, explains why, and hopefully motivates a great discussion.
In my next video, I'll show you how to tie it all together and help save your landscape before the coming water restrictions take it away.
Please SHARE THIS VIDEO to your friends and family, and together, we can make a difference.

[@KeerthySunder]

Beautiful video on how creating a water structure helps conservation. Thank you, Carl 👊

[@ColumbiaWaterGardens]

Thank You 😊 I'm shocked how little attention this particular video got. I really wanted to get the word out and bring awareness.

[@thelandscapeboss]

Great info!

[@ColumbiaWaterGardens]

Thanks! Please share this video 🙏

[@TylerTervooren]

Hadn't thought about the nutrients from the water making the plants more drought tolerant. Going to have to look into hooking ours up to a booster pump. A good fertilizer feeds the soil, not just the plant, after all. I don't know how much water goes into creating a liner or blasting and washing the 60 tons or rock we used to build our pond, but it for sure uses less irrigation than keeping a lawn green year round, even in the PNW. If you compare it to a completely native, xeriscaped space though... But if you're weighing pond vs. yard and you care about conservation, then definitely go for a pond. RE: Rainwater harvesting. Our roof will produce almost 60,000 gallons of water each year. The problem is that the pond and rainwater reservoir are already full when about 50,000 of those gallons are produced. I have nowhere to put them! It's the same with our solar panels. We're a net zero house, but only on an annual basis thanks to net metering. Without that, we'd either need massive batteries, or I'd have to mine bitcoin all summer and live like an Eskimo all winter.

[@philippefenain4405]

Very interesting topic, thank you for sharing !

[@ColumbiaWaterGardens]

Thanks for the kind comment! Please consider subscribing and sharing this video 🙏

[@inspiredtosoar3526]

Are there pond size recommendations according to the size of your property?

[@ColumbiaWaterGardens]

Yes. A pond should be explorable, yet interestingly intimate. We believe in water features that invite the family outdoors. Please call me at 888-713-7771 x4

[@Thenoobestgirl]

So you say that because the roots grew so deep, they tap right into the ground water and therefore save on evaporation via sprinklers?

[@ColumbiaWaterGardens]

Kind of. They grow deep requiring LESS water, but they can't tap into ground water. Does that make better sense?

[@johnhildebrand8740]

Carl, Really pretty! Love the water conservation education 😊. I have a question on rainwater catchment. I am building a new pond (about 12,000 gal with about 4,200 gallon of space for rainwater. We are in western Colorado and have wildfires most summers. My question is how does ash fall from wildfires & smoke affect water chemistry when it washes off of a roof? Thanks in advance!

[@ColumbiaWaterGardens]

coloradopondpros.com/2020/08/18/will-ash-hurt-my-pond/

[@johnhildebrand8740]

Thank you! I was considering putting a diverted valve in my rainwater system when we have wild fires so that I don’t collect the ash off the roof added to that which just falls from the sky. Sounds like I really just need to watch the Ph. I thought that with a diverter I could divert for the first flush of water and then let it flow back into the pond after the roof is “washed off”. Merry Christmas! Thanks for all your videos - especially the ones with “Pro Tips”!

[@ColumbiaWaterGardens]

Thanks and merry Christmas to you too. The major rule of thumb is rooftop to wetland to pond.

[@johnhildebrand8740]

@@ColumbiaWaterGardens have you ever run the booster pump out of the wetland to use those nutrients consistently? I would be worried about clogging up my drip system though.

[@ColumbiaWaterGardens]

No. I haven't tried it. I think the drip would clog too easily