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Why the fuck do they have lawns in the first place? You live in as close to a desert as Canada has, lay out some gravel, throw a cactus or two in, and call it a day.
There's no need to water a lawn even if you "need" one. There's nothing wrong with brown grass, it'll change back once it rains.
Exactly
Gravel doesn't work with some kids/pets. Perhaps mulch
Gravel is fine for them. Pets and ~~kids~~humans adapt
No
Sure they do! If they don't like it then they will just stay inside.
Gravel and cactus is maybe an exaggeration, but I expect there's some kind of native groundcover that would be Good Enough. Or set up a buried greywater irrigation system if you really must have that lawn of imported green grass. Or take the kids and pets to the park to play, like apartment-dwellers do. Or just, y'know, suck it up during the bad years and accept you're going to have a brown lawn from time to time. The ridiculously wasteful setup that exists in most suburbs, where people baby along vast tracts of climate-inappropriate grass cultivars, should never have existed.
I didn't say lawn. When did I say lawn?
A non lawn ground cover that is soft is what I'm saying many families want.
You're correct: in all fairness, it wasn't you, specifically, who used the word "lawn", and I could have chosen somewhere else to slip my reply into the subthread.
Around my area on the west coast we get a lot of artificial turf lawns. Best of both worlds if you can shell out 5-10k.
Use mulch