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Going native with plants: A new-old direction for water conservation
By Jodi Torpey, Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor Wed Apr 18, 2007

Native plants are emerging as the new heroes in a growing struggle to deal with climate change. In communities that consistently have too little water, drought-tolerant mesquite trees, buffalo grass, and colorful Texas red sage provide attractive landscaping that doesn't require watering. Native plants also come to the rescue in areas with the opposite problem – storms that dump heavy rainfall and overwhelm the infrastructure for dealing with storm water.

Full text at http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0418/p13s01-sten.html