Chris,

How about this one... 100,000 gal to water your
average 18 hole golf course on a summer day.  Ouch.
This number concerns me too, but unfortunately you
can't grow grass at 1/8" without water.  Please, no
hate mail ;-)

Greg Stelz
City of Columbus Ohio
Rec & Parks- Golf division
86 GL to Westy conversion

>    Date:    Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:51:18 -0600
From:    Chris Stann <ChrisS@INFORMS.COM>
Subject: Re: distilled water & wbx reliabilty
 * 50,000 gallons are required to produce the rayon
for an average
> living room carpet;
>     * 40,000 gallons to produce steel for one
automobile; 518 gallons
for
> one tire;
>     * 1,500 gallons to process a barrel of beer;
>     * 100 gallons to make a pound of cotton;
>     * 55 gallons to make one pound of synthetic
rubber;
>     * 24 gallons to make one pound of plastic.

>Not a simple problem.  In the case of small
reverse->osmosis devices,
>the
>makers judge that customers will be more willing to
>waste water than to
>pay
>the significant extra costs for units with higher
>recovery rates.

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