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An uncovered pool loses thousands of gallons of water a month due to evaporation. More so in a bit and dry climate.
by SamBam 5y ago
An uncovered pool loses thousands of gallons of water a month due to evaporation. More so in a bit and dry climate.
- diggernet 5y agoAs bad as that sounds, all that water (plus all the water used on residential lawns) is included in the 3-5% of California's water that goes to residential use. You could drain every pool in the state and barely touch the total water consumption. And as DannyBee mentioned above, per-capita water use has already been cut 30% over the last 20 years. You could shut off all residential water supplies entirely, to cut residential use by 100%, and still only reduce total water consumption by 5% at most. Pools aren't the problem. Lawns aren't the problem. Residential use isn't the problem.
- throwaway2037 5y agoIs an uncovered pool still legal in California?
- SamBam 5y agoSure. I was just in San Diego and then in Palm Springs, in the desert. All the pools I saw were uncovered.