I watch our water restrictions very carefully and if they limit us to every other day or even/odd day water cycling, that is when I "do" the water park for the dogs, and I kill two birds with one stone.....watering the grass and trees with the water "events" during their play time, so nothing is wasted! I also have a couple of small plastic fish ponds I bought at Home Depot, but rather than filling the pond tub up with water, I stacked large stones in them so the water comes down the little fall and them splashes over the rocks and it is then recirculated back up and falls down over the rocks...Instead of recirculating 40 gallons of water, with the large rocks in the "catch pond", it only uses maybe 4-6 gallons of water that keeps recirculating and splashing down over the rocks...the larger dogs will actually lay on the level ledge of the large rocks and enjoy the water splashing down over the rocks and them! |