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 average4-5 person households poop, pee, drink, andBATHE 4-5 times more than 1-2 person householdsCalifornia is hotter than your localeThey are using conservative guessesThey are using very rough numbersReporters are stupidTiny hydroelectric household dams
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 average4-5 person households poop, pee, drink, andBATHE 4-5 times more than 1-2 person householdsCalifornia is hotter than your localeThey are using conservative guessesThey are using very rough numbersReporters are stupidTiny hydroelectric household dams