Salt Lake City Public Utilities partnered with Utah State University and the Turfgrass Water Conservation Alliance to come up with the special blend that uses up to 40% less water.
"Our lawn was on life support," John Whittaker said."We were debating back and forth to go zero or whatever it’s called, or sod, or try this."
After FOX 13 News first reported on SLC Turf Trade last year, the bags of seed started flying off the shelves. "If you think about the environment and the Great Salt Lake and water conservation or just water in general? Folks who think about those things want to do the right thing. They just don’t necessarily know what that looks like and how to achieve it," Duer said.
The Turfgrass Water Conservation Alliance said about 1,000 households have installed the grass across Utah with more coming. Communities in and around Utah are contacting USU and TWCA to try to offer their own drought-tolerant grass blends.
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