ST. GEORGE, Utah — Washington County residents are increasingly replacing their natural lawns with artificial turf as part of a successful water conservation program that has already saved millions of gallons of water.

Devin Brady, who once struggled with maintaining his natural lawn in the Little Valley neighborhood, now has one of the nicest-looking yards on his street after switching to artificial turf.

"I had the worst-looking grass. I mean, I didn't know what I was doing wrong. I was watering it, you know. It never looked as good, had little patches and stuff. I was like, man, it takes a ton of water to keep this thing alive," Brady said.

The Brady family, who built their home 12 years ago, joined a growing neighborhood trend after seeing a neighbor make the switch to artificial tu

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