440,000 gallons last month

There is a blog for everything nowadays. Including the drought in Atlanta. Atrios referred to it for something else today, but the most astonishing post on the blog is about a house (if you can call it a house, more like a palace) that uses obscene amounts of water. This palace uses an average of 400,000 gallons of water every month. Last month it was 440,000 gallons.

The authorities are not happy about it, but they claim they can’t cite the owner for breaking any water ban laws. Given the lush green grounds around the house, I’d suggest it’s more a matter that they haven’t caught him yet. You don’t get that kind of green grass without water, something that hasn’t fallen from the Atlanta skies in some number of months.

You really do have to wonder about people, don’t you? While the city of Atlanta is struggling to provide basic water service for residents in the face of rapidly evaporating water sources, this yahoo seems to think that none of it applies to him. His water use is going up, not down.

It has to be lawn watering. How else can a household (even a palatial one) possibly use 14,600 gallons of water PER DAY? Maybe he tops off his swimming pool every other day, too. Who knows.

Nevertheless, it’s a little past time to put a stop to this. No one needs that much water even when there isn’t a drought. When there is an extreme (exceptional) drought, though, that kind of water use is simply obscene. Man, if you want to talk about an attitude of entitlement, this fella would be the poster child.