Washington
The new golf course at Washington State University will use too much water, say environmentalists who are asking the state to prevent the course from opening.
The 18-hole Palouse Ridge Golf Club, scheduled to open this fall, could require more than 100 million gallons of water per year in an area where water is already scarce and the aquifer level is dropping, according to the Center for Environmental Law & Policy.
“We simply don’t have the water to squander on a golf course,” Scotty Cornelius, a CELP member in Pullman, said Tuesday.
