I'm being a bit tongue in cheek. But we really do dump a lot of resources into lawns https://legacy.geog.ucsb.edu/the-lawn-is-the-largest-irrigat...

That's fine if it's a place for, say, children to play, but most of them do not get used that way.

Californian water agencies have offered money to convert lawns to rock or low-water gardens for a while now.

The lawns get wrapped up in that residential water usage figure mentioned further up the chain, so it isn't a whole lot compared to Big Ag.

Yeah, xeriscaping helps. In terms of municipal uses though, watering is a significant chunk in the city I live in. Not much compared to ag or actual waste, but it's a number the city is happy to push down - and has been.

It gets better. Grown in California for export to China and Saudi Arabia, where they're used for cattle feed.

Also fun fact, a lot of farm managers in Saudi Arabia are either Scottish or Australian.