Maybe someone should invent a perfect lawn-green organic paint that the hundreds of Lawn Island landscapers in their road-blocking trucks and trailers can spray on the lawns they maintain weekly. It would be cheaper than dousing drinking water on the lawns every morning between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m.

On a recent August morning, a few days after we received a robocall from the Suffolk County Water Authority asking county residents to stop watering their lawns, I counted about one-third of the houses near me either in the act of watering or with noticeable puddles in front of their houses, and no, it did not rain the night before.

It is difficult to think of a more wasteful habit than pouring water that has been pumped, filtered, purified and distributed on the ground. Yet it is an accepted pra

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