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2.5 billion gallons per year. The US uses about 2 billion gallons of water per day on golf courses.
by Aurornis 5mo ago
2.5 billion gallons per year.
The US uses about 2 billion gallons of water per day on golf courses.
- Banditoz 5mo agoCitation?
- bensyverson 5mo agoAn industry report from 2012 puts water use for US golf courses at around 2B gallons of water/day [0]. It's possible they've gotten more efficient in the past 14 years, but it's also possible there are more golf courses today. I haven't looked into it. [0]: https://www.usga.org/content/dam/usga/pdf/Water%20Resource%20Center/how-much-water-does-golf-use.pdf
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- skywhopper 5mo agoThe more important question in both cases is where the water comes from.
- myaccountonhn 5mo agoAnd how it affects the local area.
- criddell 5mo agoA lot of the golf courses around here use reclaimed water (treated effluent). Hopefully data centers aren't using potable water.
- nevir 5mo agoThey hook into industrial water supplies (usually not potable, unless the utility has no other option)
- jimz 5mo agoLake Las Vegas, the biggest user by far, is at 82% reclaimed. The Las Vegas Valley Water Authority's name-and-shame list for water use is still FOIA-able (last year's, obviously). https://archive.org/details/top-commercial-water-users-southern-nevada-2025 https://archive.org/details/top-commercial-water-users-south...