What is going on between these two?

[TSOWOATNKC]

Do you have to water your grass? Being from the PNW, I’ve always found watering the lawn to be a very strange practice. Almost no one waters their lawns here. The grass just dies in summer, and comes back fine and dandy in fall.

When you dump the pools for the ducks, you’re technically watering the yard!

 

[SkyeT]

In Central Texas, its almost as if, once dead, never again alive. Once you let grass die here, it is a chore to get it back up and running. And when we do get rain, its torrential, and then whatever isn't held down by plants, washes away, including grass seed and dead stuff. We've actually had this happen in our front yard before we planted Asiatic Ivy. We ended up having to replace a lot of soil. I don't want to lose my backyard!

The ducks absolutely love grazing in our yard (especially the muscovy), so keeping the grass is important to us. And yes, emptying the pools help us water the bushes and trees, and it does help us not have to water the section of the yard that has the pools. The two small pools water less than a quarter of our back yard.