Lance Armstrong targeted for his water waste
August 18, 2008 by Editor
Filed under The Southwest
HOUSTON (NY Times)— Lance Armstrong is one of the favorite sons of Texas and a model citizen known as much for his social conscience as his cycling. So it came as a surprise when it was revealed this week that he is one of the biggest individual users of water in Austin, where he lives.
In July, Mr. Armstrong, who won the Tour de France seven times, used a whopping 330,000 gallons of water at his lush Spanish-colonial home, with an acre of gardens and a swimming pool, city water authority officials said. The bill for July was $2,460.
This tremendous flow of H2O, which is 38 times what the average household in the city uses in the summer, comes as Texas is going through a dry spell and officials are asking people to cut back on watering their lawns. “We are definitely short on rain,” Lisa Rhodes, a spokeswoman for the authority, said with a sigh.
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Source: New York Times
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I am a Native Texan going back to the Republic of Texas at least twice (see Anton Pieper and Valentin Hoch). I am happy to share my state with all the new people moving here to enjoy our various attributes of the Lone Star State- perhaps wanting milder winters, or a better economy than where they came from. BUT- we have the same amount of water as we had before. We must all conserve water, not waste it. Rainwater collection, graywater re-use, getting rid of expansive St. Augustine lawns, shorter showers, etc.