One House, 390k Gallons of Water Per Month?!

Even if there weren’t a drought on, this would be almost unbelievable. From WSB-TV:

Channel 2 obtained months and months of records from the Cobb County Water System. One address rose to the top of the list month after month – a single house that last month used enough water to fill 1,000 hot tubs.[...]

Over the past six months the address has used an average of 390,000 gallons of water. Last month it was 440,000 – up 15% from last October when there was no crisis. That one home would drain the nearby water plant’s filtration field in less than a year.

“We face a real resource issue,” said Water Conservation officer Kathy Nguyen. Nguyen fears even when Cobb County doubles the cost of water for high-end users it may not matter. “A lot of people think that’s the cost of doing business for me…it’s more important that I use this water than it is for me to reduce my use,” said Nguyen.

The house is not your average user and the house doesn’t have your average meter. It’s a 2 inch meter, which is big enough to service a strip mall.

The article mentions that there’s no evidence that the mansion’s owner is violating the regional ban on outdoor water use.

So, why is a single house using that much water inside? Is there a huge swimming pool that they’re changing the water in daily? Or, is there one heckuvan inefficient hydroponics setup inside?

If I lived in metro Atlanta, I’d be really peeved at such apparent wastefulness and selfishness given the dire H₂O situation there.