Tiger Woods is on my youknowhatlist

[Beachbummette]

According to the Orlando Sentinel, 129,000 gallons of water goes down the drain on Tiger's Florida estate every month. Average water usage is 10,000 gallons a month.

The home is on Jupiter Island near Palm Beach, considered the wealthiest community in the country. Several of his fellow Floridians also do it. NBA star Grant Hill used 263,000 gallons in May. The Magic's Dwight Howard's estate soaked up 189,000 gallons in July alone.

According to records, Woods is near the top of the 25 biggest guzzlers in Orange County, Florida. Number 25 on the list averages 84,000 gallons a month.

Note to Tiger -- Central Florida is in a water crisis.




This makes me very sad....and angry. I don't care if he can afford it.

 

[Biff]

They must be some very clean folk....Thats ALOT of bath & showers!!!

j/k BB.....that seems quite exsesive....... :shock:

According to the Orlando Sentinel, 129,000 gallons of water goes down the drain on Tiger's Florida estate every month. Average water usage is 10,000 gallons a month.

The home is on Jupiter Island near Palm Beach, considered the wealthiest community in the country. Several of his fellow Floridians also do it. NBA star Grant Hill used 263,000 gallons in May. The Magic's Dwight Howard's estate soaked up 189,000 gallons in July alone.

According to records, Woods is near the top of the 25 biggest guzzlers in Orange County, Florida. Number 25 on the list averages 84,000 gallons a month.

Note to Tiger -- Central Florida is in a water crisis.




This makes me very sad....and angry. I don't care if he can afford it.

 

[wrobert]

According to the Orlando Sentinel, 129,000 gallons of water goes down the drain on Tiger's Florida estate every month. Average water usage is 10,000 gallons a month.

The home is on Jupiter Island near Palm Beach, considered the wealthiest community in the country. Several of his fellow Floridians also do it. NBA star Grant Hill used 263,000 gallons in May. The Magic's Dwight Howard's estate soaked up 189,000 gallons in July alone.

According to records, Woods is near the top of the 25 biggest guzzlers in Orange County, Florida. Number 25 on the list averages 84,000 gallons a month.

Note to Tiger -- Central Florida is in a water crisis.
This makes me very sad....and angry. I don't care if he can afford it.

If they are using too much water, then obviously the water authority is not charging enough. They ought to start doubling the amount for water at some number, say 50K gallons, and then double the rate for every 10K gallons over that. If these people want to use a ridiculous amount of water, then they can fund innovation to provide the water they need.

 

[Beachbummette]

They must be some very clean folk....Thats ALOT of bath & showers!!!

j/k BB.....that seems quite exsesive....... :shock:

I imagine it is mostly water used to water lawns.

If they are using too much water, then obviously the water authority is not charging enough. They ought to start doubling the amount for water at some number, say 50K gallons, and then double the rate for every 10K gallons over that. If these people want to use a ridiculous amount of water, then they can fund innovation to provide the water they need.

Grayt idea. Now, how do we get that to happen?

 

[Will B]

Could he have a well? Hmmmm....
May be worth investigating...

 

[wrobert]

I imagine it is mostly water used to water lawns.



Grayt idea. Now, how do we get that ot happen?

I imagine that is something that the people who set the water rates will have to handle.

 

[Beachbummette]

Could he have a well? Hmmmm....
May be worth investigating...

He needs one. My neighbor at Watersound put in a well for landscaping, it will pay for itself in a few years of those big waterbills. Makes me wonder....how bad is it for our water supply to use well water? What does it do to the environment and water tables?

I imagine that is something that the people who set the water rates will have to handle.

So why is this not done nationwide? I know of people in Atlanta that kept getting fines and just kept paying them just to keep up their big expensive lawns.

 

[wrobert]

He needs one. My neighbor at Watersound put in a well for landscaping, it will pay for itself in a few years of those big waterbills. Makes me wonder....how bad is it for our water supply to use well water? What does it do to the environment and water tables?




So why is this not done nationwide? I know of people in Atlanta that kept getting fines and just kept paying them just to keep up their big expensive lawns.

I have no idea. This has been discussed in central and south florida for years. Instead it seems government wants to pass rules about what sort of plants we can use at our homes. And when we can water. I just do not see why we do not charge more for water. I know DeFuniak raised their water rates for businesses substantially and I immediately went out and made some changes to my business to use less water. And when water rates go up here, you do feel it because they charge double for sewer.

 

[Will B]

is this not done nationwide? I know of people in Atlanta that kept getting fines and just kept paying them just to keep up their big expensive lawns.

They did until the paper called them out public outcry became great enough to make them stop. There are quite a few upscale homes I have seen that have signs stating that landscaping water is coming from wells...

 

[wrobert]

They did until the paper called them out public outcry became great enough to make them stop. There are quite a few upscale homes I have seen that have signs stating that landscaping water is coming from wells...

If I remember correctly, quite a bit of the landscaping water in Sarasota is coming from reclaimed treated water. The expense of course is having to run dual pipes throughout the city to supply the water.

I have a well at my house. I get my water from the same place that most of the people in sowal get their water because I have a deep well. Now if they are using a shallow well to landscape I am thinking that they are using filtered groundwater.

I have been looking at these water reclamation systems, but so far, I have just avoided watering things. I figure if God wants them to live, he will provide the rain. That system seems to have worked quite well before I got here.