Cool...Clear...Clean...Water!

Sprinklers. They are all over Calvin's campus, and they make navigating the sidewalks around Calvin College at night quite interesting. These sprinklers are on for at least two hours, and there are quite a few of them and they put out quite a bit of water. Some of the sprinklers spray water half on the road and half on the grass. In short, only about fifty-percent of the water that most of the sprinklers spray lands on the grass. The other half ends up someplace else, such as a sidewalk, road, or building. This seems rather inefficient to me, and a real waste of water. Not only that, but the sprinklers come on every day, even when it is raining.
Watching (and sometimes avoiding), the sprinklers got me to thinking; what if Calvin chose to run the sprinklers only every other day of the week, starting with Monday? That is four days that the sprinklers would run. Think of the money that Calvin could save in a year on their water bill if they did that. So I was thinking; why not use the money that could be saved on the water bill, and send it to some organization like blood water mission that creates clean water sources for poor communities in Africa? Isn't it more important to give a cup of clean cold water to someone in the name of Christ than to keep the grass in our yards green? How much is green grass really worth to Calvin (and Americans in general)? I think I could live with brown grass if I knew that someone else had access to something I take for granted every day; namely, clean water.