A pair of graduate students at the University of Florida’s Documentary Institute have made a film about suburban lawns called Gimme Green.

This is from their Facts page:

• If present consumption patterns continue, two out of every three people on Earth will live in water-stressed conditions by the year 2025.
• On average, Americans use 40 to 60 percent of their water on their landscapes.

And its always been amazing to me how freely and without question we dose our lawns (and food and everything else) with synthetic chemicals we do not understand. The Gimme Green site mentions these stats:

• Of 30 commonly used lawn pesticides, 19 are linked with cancer
  or carcinogencity, 13 are linked with birth defects, 21 with
  reproductive effects, 26 with liver or kidney damage, 15 with
  neurotoxicity, and 11 with disruption of the endocrine (hormonal) system.
• Of those same 30 lawn pesticides, 17 are detected in groundwater,
  23 have the ability to leach into drinking water sources,
  24 are toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms vital to our
  ecosystem, 11 are toxic to bees, and 16 are toxic to birds.

Makes you just want to lay out on the lawn and soak up the carcinogens, doesn’t it?