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Largest Desalination Plant in the Hemisphere to Supply 7% of San Diego's Water

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How much water / house? (Score: 1)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-22 23:54 (#2SSR)

... An acre-foot is enough to supply two homes for a year.
Half an acre-foot is 162,926 gallons (per a couple of different online conversion programs). I'm in the Great Lakes area where we don't pay much for water and our house (two people) uses about 30,000 gallons/year. Even when we were watering a few new trees we only got to 40,000 gallons/year. We don't do anything special to conserve except the toilets are the low flush type and faucets/sinks have typical 2 gallons/minute aerators (flow restrictors).

What are they doing in San Diego to use 5x the water we use here?

Re: How much water / house? (Score: 1)

by evilviper@pipedot.org on 2014-09-23 01:33 (#2SSX)

our house (two people) uses about 30,000 gallons/year. Even when we were watering a few new trees we only got to 40,000 gallons/year
Two-people is a ridiculously small household, and you are in an area where you don't have to water your yard at all, where most of the Southwest you'd have nothing but dirt unless you water the whole thing twice a week.

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2014-09-23 01:33
Half an acre-foot is 162,926 gallons
According to WP:

"average consumer in the United States has a water footprint of 2,842 m3 per year" which is 750,000 US gallons, meaning San Diego households are quite frugal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_use#Water_footprint_of_individual_consumers
our house (two people) uses about 30,000 gallons/year. Even when we were watering a few new trees we only got to 40,000 gallons/year
Two-people is a ridiculously small household, and you are in an area where you don't have to water your yard at all, where most of the Southwest you'd have nothing but dirt unless you water the whole thing twice a week.
2014-09-23 10:14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_use#Water_footprint_of_individual_consumers
our house (two people) uses about 30,000 gallons/year. Even when we were watering a few new trees we only got to 40,000 gallons/year
Two-people is a ridiculously small household, and you are in an area where you don't have to water your yard at all, where most of the Southwest you'd have nothing but dirt unless you water the whole thing twice a week.

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