Comment 2SSV Re: How much water / house?

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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: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-09-23 00:29 (#2SSV)

Just wild guesses but:

2 people is below average

4-5 person households poop, pee, drink, andBATHE 4-5 times more than 1-2 person households

California is hotter than your locale

They are using conservative guesses

They are using very rough numbers

Reporters are stupid

Tiny hydroelectric household dams

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