The Grass Doctor

Would Colleges and Universities save millions of dollars each year by installing artificial lawns?

I'm a Tulane student, and I end up feeling disheartened whenever there's open sprinklers wasting thousands of gallons of water across many, many quads throughout campus. And the university always keeps on pushing tuition rates higher and higher and higher! So wouldn't installing artificial lawns instead of watering and mowing and maintaining miles of real grass (which can host squirrels and bugs) be a great cost-saver?

Public Comments

1. I doesn't cost MILLIONS of dollars just watering lawns at Tulane , as you've said. Tulane occupies no more than 110 acres. Most Colleges and Universities use automatic sprinklers that turn on and off. Installing and buying fake grass is very expensive. and many Colleges and Universities are huge. It does rain. I am an advocate of saving water though.