Xeriscaping Southern California Water issue

The issue of water shortage is a fact that lives with the entire world taking into account the ever receding usable water levels. These are due to pollution, lack of access and misuse at the domestic level. The misuse at the domestic level and the very basic domestic solutions that there can be within the society as seen in other countries especially in the Middle East and desert countries is the prime focus of the paper since it is here that there are many fallacies and wrong arguments that surround the water conservation issue and yet therein to lies the solution to the water conservation approach among them being Xeriscaping.

One of the faulty logics commonly used by people at the homestead level to argue for domestic waste of water is the faulty logic of circular reasoning. Many argue that they have to use water the way they do since if they do not then how else would they use it and yet they found the family or society using water as it is being used. Most of such come from lawn and landscape people. The xeriscaping comes in to break this circular thinking and lead people to new ways of water conservation beginning from the domestic use to the commercial levels. Apparently there can be change in the use of water and arguing that you misuse water since you found it being misused would be wrong.

The next faulty logic used often here is overgeneralization on why one cannot stop misusing water and start conserving water especially in the drier places within the country. Many would say everyone uses it the same way hence they too are justified to use it as they are. There can...

The xeriscaping art as will be seen is a sure way of helping people stop overgeneralization and realize there are better ways of use of water, which are not conventional yet very effective within the society.
The last fallacy in the water conservation bid that is commonly used as an excuse is the faulty logic of distraction or red herring. These are arguments that divert attention from the main issues, for instance many families and individuals would argue that there are still flowing rivers, people somewhere else are planting trees, they contribute cash towards environmental conservation endorse, there is growing technology that would enable purification of salty water from the sea and many more. These are arguments that are geared towards diverting the attention of the community from concentrating on the ever receding water levels and difficulty in accessing water depicted by the annual increment in the water bills (Utah Valley State College, 2013). This diversion in effect diverts the attention of the community as well from trying to find the best and suitable means of water conservation like xeriscaping and instead there forms a ceaseless blame game projected to the leaders instead of adoption of domestic solutions to the environmental challenges as will be demonstrated herein.

Exriscaping applied

With the increase in the water shortage, not only within the U.S. But across the globe, there is need for every individual,…