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Here's what the news today had to say:

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida (AP) -- The fairways here are flecked, the greens mottled brown. The PGA National Resort & Spa doesn't look like a marquee golf course.
"We'll talk to people about it in the pro shop when they check in and say, 'You might notice things are a little bit browner today,"' said Joel Paige, managing director at the course.
Florida's bottom half is in an 18-month drought, and signs of the problem are everywhere -- from the links to the nursery and sugar cane industries.

Florida is faced with a couple of big issues. Deep aquifer drills supply all the new S. Fla. residents/businesses with water, at the expense of lakes throughout the state. And the sugar industry is simply horrid. They use massive amount of water and discharge massive amounts of pollutents into the Everglades.

Golf courses are, unfortunately, not the most efficient users of water resorces, although most courses here use reclaimed water that is not suited for any other purpose. And turf research is producing some very drought-tolerant species of grass. It costs a lot of money to re-sod a golf course, though, and most courses are trying to just stick with the tried-and true method of over-seeding bermuda.

When the water holes dry up, as they are in S. Fla., you know it's dry.