 reclaim your time rethink your lawn home lawns blanket approximately 21 million acres of land in the us that s an area over 17 times the size of the grand canyon lawns require two to four times more water than shrubs or trees depending on conditions a 25by40foot yard can drink up to 10000 gallons of water each summer each lawn also generates about two tons of clippings over 330 yarddebris bags a year americans spend about 40 hours a year the equivalent of one hourwork week mowing their lawns imagine if each of the approximately 50 million us households that have a lawn replaced just one square yard 9 feet of their lawn with a nonturf alternative  that would conserve approximately 125 billion of gallons of water eliminate 12 million hours of mowing and save bagging 60000 tons of grass clipping so how do you want to spend you time and resources  