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I'm a water resources engineer. In my experience, this is approximately enough water to supply 15,000 people on an average daily basis.
Are you saying the average person uses 36,600 gal per year? That seems very high.
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It does but Google has a very very strict policy about not greasing wheels. People have been fired over it and not reimbursed for the out of pocket expense. It made building infrastructure in India take exponentially longer than competitors who were willing to play according to the unspoken rules. Google can't be trusted but not everything they do or every way they operate is bad.
Google has spent $21,770,000 on lobbying in 2018. https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00006782...
I'm a water resources engineer. In my experience, this is approximately enough water to supply 15,000 people on an average daily basis.
Are you saying the average person uses 36,600 gal per year? That seems very high.
USGS estimates 80-100 gallons per American per day.
1,500,000 google's daily average water use / 100 gallons per American per day = 15,000
Google will use roughly the equivalent of 15,000 Americans worth of daily water.
Further math:
100 gallons per American per day x 365 days = 36,500 per person per year.
Edit: Had a before coffee typo and added some more math
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Evaporative coolers in low country South Carolina? Is there a more humid place on Earth?
There won't be as soon as this plant becomes operational.
It's been operational for 10+ years. https://goo.gl/maps/XLEegK3rH1AqUXpw8
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...and then comes down as rain somewhere else, eventually.
If that somewhere else is too far away it won't help refill South Carolina's aquifers.
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Are you saying the average person uses 36,600 gal per year? That seems very high.
549mil gallons allowed to use in a year divided by 365 days equals 1,504,109 daily average for google (let's round to 1.5mil). USGS estimates 80-100 gallons per American per day. 1,500,000 google's daily average water use / 100 gallons per American per day = 15,000 Google will use roughly the equivalent of 15,000 Americans worth of daily water. Further math: 100 gallons per American per day x 365 days = 36,500 per pe…
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549mil gallons allowed to use in a year divided by 365 days equals 1,504,109 daily average for google (let's round to 1.5mil). USGS estimates 80-100 gallons per American per day. 1,500,000 google's daily average water use / 100 gallons per American per day = 15,000 Google will use roughly the equivalent of 15,000 Americans worth of daily water. Further math: 100 gallons per American per day x 365 days = 36,500 per pe…
Does that number include the water cost of the food we eat? Or is it only direct personal usage?
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie...