{"id":393,"date":"2012-10-25T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2012-10-25T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:50:58","slug":"oops-overwatering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/oops-overwatering\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops &#8212; Overwatering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The watering system on the Dolores Street median looks grossly inefficient, but is actually par for the course. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/WaterSense\/pubs\/outdoor.html\">EPA<\/a> cites studies that show up to 50% of the 7-billion gallons of water a day used for residential landscape irrigation is wasted &#8212; due to overwatering, evaporation, or system over-design.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_407\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-407\" title=\"DSC_0173\" src=\"http:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0173-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0173-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0173-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0173-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0173.jpg 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water everywhere<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The watering system on the Dolores Street median looks grossly inefficient, but is actually par for the course. The EPA cites studies that show up to 50% of the 7-billion gallons of water a day used for residential landscape irrigation is wasted &#8212; due to overwatering, evaporation, or system over-design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[36,37,59,66],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oops","tag-environment","tag-green","tag-oops-2","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actual-size.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}