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This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
On a sweltering late April day, a flock of middle-aged men strolled in athleisure, practising their backswings and rifling balls into the azure sky above the Green Springs golf community just outside St. George, a ballooning city of 100,000 in southwestern Utah. Some 2,000 homes, mostly single-family — many with RV garages — orbit the fairway, like rings around Planet Golf, and more are on their way.
As in so many cities in the desert West, golf in St. George is a thirsty…
