As introduction to this discussion let it be said that the goal
is the cause of water conservation. Every year swimming pools
are wasting billions of gallons of water that can be saved. In
areas suffering from water shortages, "It takes only 200 pools
using covers to save an entire 3.5 million gallon tank of city
drinking water." It's well known that pool bubble covers are
inexpensive and pay for themselves by lowering your water bill
and chemical costs, so why aren't more pools using pool covers?
Water Loss Calculation without Pool Covers Let's calculate the
number of wasted tanks of drinking water through evaporation by
pools. Sacramento: Using an average evaporation rate of 17,500
gallons/pool annually, it takes only 200 pools to waste an
entire city tank of water. If Sacramento has over 50,000 pools,
then Sacramento alone wastes 250 tanks of city water every year
(or) 2,125,000,000 (that's BILLION) gallons of water every year!
What's that make you think about when they start rationing water
and your lawn'