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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.

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

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-09-23 07:20 (#2STE)

On my monthly water bill, the local utility lists the following:
  • Your water use was 748 gallons.1
  • Your neighborhood average water use was 7,998 gallons.
  • SAWS residential average water use was 10,085 gallons.
I have no idea how some people use so much water.

1One digit on my water meter equals 748 gallons. For some months of the year, my usage is low enough to make the meter read the same as the previous month (meaning my usage is actually a bit less than 748 gallons/month)

Re: How much water / house? (Score: 2, Funny)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-23 09:16 (#2STJ)

Swimming pools and automatic lawn-watering sprinkler systems ought to be the biggest culprit, I'd say, although having kids also raises your water bill in a noticeable way.

I personally lower mine by bathing infrequently :) Smells so ... "economical."

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