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Water Restrictions and Cape Town Lawns — What a Lawn Really Drinks

Measure a lawn in litres before you price it. A 100 m² Cape Town lawn drinks roughly 25 000 litres a month in summer, billed in the rising tariff blocks on top of household use.

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Established artificial grass lawn in a Cape Town back garden with a paved braai area alongside
A garden that needs no water at all.

Watering a lawn under Cape Town restrictions

Read the tariff before costing a lawn. Cape Town prices water in rising blocks, so garden watering lands in the expensive blocks on top of household use rather than at the cheap base rate.

A 100 square metre lawn needs roughly 25 000 litres a month through a Cape summer. That is the volume that pushes a household up a block.

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What the 2018 restrictions taught

Level 6B restrictions banned garden watering with municipal water outright. Lawns across the metro died that summer, and many were never replaced. The restriction ended. The memory of it is what still drives most enquiries for turf.

Dry dormant front lawn beside a green artificial lawn in a Cape Town street
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Waterwise alternatives, honestly

  • Indigenous planting. Cheapest, lowest water, no lawn surface to use.
  • Gravel and paving. Cheap, hot, and hard underfoot.
  • Artificial grass. Dearest up front, no water, usable surface.
  • Borehole and real lawn. Viable where a borehole already exists.

Of the four, only turf keeps a surface you can walk on at zero litres. What laying it involves is set out in how to lay artificial grass.

Compare the numbers on artificial grass against a real lawn, price the turf option on the Cape Town price list, or read how artificial grass installation works.