They would laugh west of our region at what we call a “drought”. We just get the rare 3-5 week stretch with little rainfall causing lawns to go brown. Go out into the woods and the soil under the leaf litter is usually still moist and fertile. Trust me, I like a thick, green lawn myself...but it’s not a natural landscape. Anything that requires you to pump nitrogen into it, water it regularly, and spray it down with pesticides and weed killers is not natural.