Wretched Excess Dept.: a Georgian Consumes a Niagara
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 11.15.07
Instead of Governor Sonny Perdue praying for rain, or any of the great ideas Martin Lewis has at Huffpo, he might have been better off having a few quiet words with Chris G. Carlos, a homeowner who used 440,000 gallons of water in September, or about 14,700 gallons a day. Mr. Carlos has apparently been using the water not only to flush nine toilets and maintain a swimming pool but also to refresh nearly four acres of lush landscaping around his white-columned, red brick home.
Mr. Carlos says “I honestly didn’t realize the extent of my water use and regret I didn’t act sooner.” Neighbors scoff. “With the water crisis that we’re in down here, I just think it’s ridiculous that he would take advantage of the situation,” said Ken L. Scott, who lives across the street from Mr. Carlos. But it turns out that through a loophole in the rules, everything he did was perfectly legal. ::New York Times
Wow. That's really despicable.
yeah, but every house in that shot has a filled swimming pool. . .
If he's bright he'll hire a company to fit a water recycling system to his house and grounds.
If he's very bright he'll hire a PR company to tell his neighbours about it!
It's about time we started outing these abusers publically.
In the same way that corporations will have to pay for their pollution emissions, I think citizens should also be held accountable for their footprint and taxed accordingly.
Did anyone notice his roof? Like so many mcmansions built in recent years, his has a steep dark roof. He probably has to stay in his pool to cool off from living on his own heat island. These dark roofs will be around for twenty years before it will be time to reroof with what hopefully will be a cool roof system. Why are builders still putting up so many black roofs?