"Warren" wrote in message
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Scudo wrote:
i am hoping someone can give me an approx cost (or possible litres) for
this.....

I have a property in Turkey so hot summers from may to end of October and
very little rain during those months in fact probably no rain for 3 of
those
months.

Costs vary from country to country so possibly could somone give me an
idea
of how many litres of water it would take to keep a lawn green during the
summer months, it is a course type grass and not to `bowling green` or
`golf
course` standard.

the lawn is approx 680 sq feet (75 sq metres)

I only use the propery for 5 weeks of the year and wondering about the
costs
of watering as opposed to getting some gravel chips put down, as it might
be
too expensive to maintain the lawn.


Well, let's say you want to put down 3cm of water per week, and you're not
loosing significant amounts to leakage, run-off (from poor draining soil),
evaporation (you're not watering in the heat of the sun), or forgetting to
turn off the water once enough is delivered, and, of course, a reasonably
even distribution. 75 sq meters is 750,000 sq cm. Make it 3cm deep and you
have 2,250,000 cubic cm per week. Multiply that times 20 weeks and you get
45,000,000 cubic cm, or 4,500 cubic meters. There are 1,000 liters in a
cubic meter, so that would be 4,500,000 liters a season.

--
Warren H.

I think there is something wrong with this calculation... a lawn that small
would be a lake if you watered it with 4.5 million liters a season...