“There is nothing green about a golf course. It consumes a lot of water and chemical fertilizer six times more than what is required by a standard dry crop, which leads to pollution of groundwater and eutrophication of water bodies, leaving no chance for survival of fish. Use of pesticides, herbicides and biocides and exotic species of grass will result in loss of biodiversity,”
“an average golf course in a tropical country like Thailand needs 1,500 kg of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides per year, and uses much as 60,000 rural villagers do”. It means a clear loss of biodiversity.
440 litres a day or double of what the inhabitants of an average
Death certificates of 618 golf course superintendents by researchers at the University of Iowa’s College of Medicine showed an unusually high number of deaths from cancers, including brain cancer and non-Hodgin’s lymphoma.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/does-hyderabad-need-10-golf-courses/article7929048.ece
“an average golf course in a tropical country like Thailand needs 1,500 kg of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides per year, and uses much as 60,000 rural villagers do”. It means a clear loss of biodiversity.
440 litres a day or double of what the inhabitants of an average
Death certificates of 618 golf course superintendents by researchers at the University of Iowa’s College of Medicine showed an unusually high number of deaths from cancers, including brain cancer and non-Hodgin’s lymphoma.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/does-hyderabad-need-10-golf-courses/article7929048.ece
