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We suck they'll and I properties we have. Things that don't take a lot of water once they getestablished. Richard Cohen points to a changing landscape. He's overseeing more projects thatrequire less grass more drought tolerant plants more hard skate. With the governor's order to cutback on water by 25%. He says it means having to adapt even more for business need to try tocounsel our clients that. We need to design landscapes that need less water something these newhomeowners kept in mind at their design most of the back to cement. So we don't have to worryabout that inlet near a ranch drip irrigation and native plants recently replaced grass median.Officials say they expect to save two billion gallons of water a year. Several thousand dollars savedand that doesn't count lowered labor costs you don't have crews coming through and in Moline andin things like that much much easier plants and maintain. On an ongoing basis Cohen says thedrought is creating business opportunities. As more people replace grass with artificial turf andwater dazzling landscapes with something more efficient. But I think there's going to be east somuch opportunity to change all these old landscapes over. That it's going to be a long time before wefeel I mean severe pinch on business he adds companies that don't change could suffer those peopleare gonna have to be brought up to speed they're gonna have to start going to seminars and classesin order to learn. It's gonna sort of force them to either get better at their command and up out ofbusiness.

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