You will have to get used to the sad sight.

It doesn't look nice when the grass is no longer green.

After weeks without rain, lawns turn yellowish-brown.

After all, there is no need to bother with mowing the lawn because the dry grass will no longer grow.

But that doesn't reconcile the hobby gardeners with the yellow grass.

Many residents of houses with gardens do not want to endure the barren sight and water their lawns in dry weeks.

At least that's what the administration in Kronberg concludes from the fact that the consumption of tap water increases by leaps and bounds when the weather is hot.

The city politicians are trying to take countermeasures and want to use a "drinking water traffic light" to call for water saving.

This includes the fact that homeowners should refrain from watering the lawn when the traffic light is "amber" or "red" indicating water shortage.

The drought becomes the norm

There used to be summers with yellow grass too.

As early as the 1970s, for example, there was a ban on sprinkling lawns in Königstein during a hot summer.

At that time, police cars drove through the town and drew attention to it with announcements.

What has changed since then: The drought in summer is becoming the rule rather than the exception.

The yellow lawn is just the most obvious symptom of the ever-changing climate.

Some people in the Taunus are jealous of the golf course in Kronberg.

Some parts are irrigated so that golfers walk across green grass.

You can't blame the club because it doesn't use tap water for it.

The water is pumped on the site, the mining rights belong to the castle.

Economical use of water

The club also thinks about the economical use of water, so the club wants to build a storage pond for rainwater.

In a few years it will be interesting to see what the golf club experiences with it.

Perhaps it will become a role model for communities that don't know where to get the water for their green spaces.

In all of this, it's important to remember that gardeners and golfers aren't the ones who suffer most from the drought.

Farmers who use the grass from their own grassland as fodder are hit much harder.

Your animals not only lack fresh grass on the pasture in summer, but also hay in winter.