Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

It was indeed sensible and necessary, especially this year. When I looked at the plants at the edge of the field that didn't get any water, I knew that I wouldn't have wanted my garden like that.

I no longer remember how it was/ is with us, the meter was not cheap.

Why had yours already been installed? You had just built and taken over plants from the old garden, or am I confusing you? Wells are repeatedly discussed to be prohibited. Like many things. They have now been replaced by Christmas lights. Didn't you have a watering ban at certain times?

We are not allowed to drill wells. Healing spring protection area and too close to the water body.

If it is permanently hot, like here for over 2 months with no rain at all, then at least I stop watering the lawn, for example. Yes, it then turns yellow, but fortunately lawns are like weeds, they come back very quickly. Trying to water against that doesn’t seem sensible to me or is a waste of resources. Only water where it is really needed. Crops, because otherwise there is no yield, and plants that show water shortage. Not before. By the way, plants don’t benefit from being used to little water. Constant watering just spoils them; then their roots don’t grow deep but stay shallow. New plants of course need to be watered well so they have a chance, but after that... I just grin when neighbors install some irrigation in the hedge – completely unnecessary.