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anothersoldierJul 2, 2010
tHAT WASthe most random thing IVE SEEN ALL DAY!
twinklyjesusJul 3, 2010
almost as random as your use of caps and spacing?
desertflyerJul 3, 2010
People are definitely drinking this 4th of July weekend. By people, I mean Anothersoldier.
kleon777Jul 3, 2010
"The statistics are shocking!!"
Less than $3 a day is shocking?
crossmrJul 3, 2010
it is if you're an idiot power user who doesn't actually pay attention to what they're submitting
foobsJul 3, 2010
This is gay
eikon89Jul 3, 2010
So's your mother.
daevanJul 3, 2010
$3.16 for my pool each day? Sounds about right.... Not shocking at all.
slashdotordiggJul 3, 2010
30 seconds and grade school math? That's a lot of work!!
I just use my intuition. it took 0.002 seconds and it's 2.90238938439 dollars a day. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
dwhsJul 3, 2010
Not bad at all
hobbes1339Jul 3, 2010
ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
This infographic is guilty of lazy use of big numbers to get people to look at it without proving a point.
supernova36Jul 3, 2010
I AM SHOCKED.
pizzini3000Jul 3, 2010
Oh no! The water is evaporating!
Someone tell the creator that evaporated water comes back later, please.
superpineconeJul 3, 2010
All that pee comes back too!!!!!!!!!!!!! ewwwwwwwwwwww
zb757Jul 4, 2010
I dugg you up out of spite
superpineconeJul 4, 2010
lawl no one likes evaporated pee
zenmojoJul 3, 2010
People keep throwing around the words "grade school" so let me debunk grade school for a second and explain how the water cycle really works.
70% of our planet's surface is water. 3% of that water is drinkable. Much of that water comes from underground aquifers. When the water evaporates from the toxic cess of your pool it evaporates along with an extremely poisonous vapor of chlorine (although much of it stays behind). That vapor goes up into the clouds. Those clouds are now seeded a hodgepodge of s**t you don't want touching your skin. Except now it's raining down on your lakes...maybe. Chances are if you live in San Diego or Los Angeles it's raining down back over the ocean and joining the 97% of water on the planet that you can't drink.
But what about desalinization plants? Fine, you're now trading several gallons of oil for a gallon of clean water. Guess that's a fair trade.
But you know where it's not going? Back into your aquifers. You know, the aquifers you got your water from in the first place. Some of it is raining down on your crops if you're lucky, although chances are you're just draining more water from your aquifers. Nonetheless, fact: far more water is leaving your aquifer than going back into it.
Oh, but what about the cycle!? Doesn't some of that go up to the mountains and come down through streams?
Factories use those streams and rivers. Hell, it takes about 3 gallons of water to make a gallon of bottled water. And we're not even talking about the waste runoff from nuclear plants and manufacturing. The half-life for chemicals floating through that s**t is pretty impressive.
...
Ignorance is amusing up to a point, but eventually you have to realize that people use s**t up and it doesn't come back the same way. In a sustainable world, maybe, just maybe, we could use water and it would come back as water. But in this country, we don't function that way.
twinklyjesusJul 3, 2010
Amazingly, 75% of the earth is covered by sea water, which, evaporates and falls on the land as water we can drink. So, it's not as much of a one-way street as you describe.
anothersoldierJul 3, 2010
"But what about desalinization plants? Fine, you're now trading several gallons of oil for a gallon of clean water. Guess that's a fair trade."
What do you suggest we do, stop drinking f**king water?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
@Anothersoldier:
/facepalm
wow, to get so agitated over nothing while ignoring the point. You're special!
anothersoldierJul 4, 2010
It just seemed like he was lecturing the human race on our careless useage of water and other resources needed to produce clean water. I understand we're running out of water and it's a limited supply, but we don't really have a choice! We kind of depend on the stuff!
ydobonobodyJul 3, 2010
I am surprised that there is not outrage at there being rivers that still run into the ocean.
pizzini3000Jul 3, 2010
WE NEED MOAR DAMS!
Damn nature, stop letting the water run!
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
Yes, you are right, yd, we should laugh at anyone who supports having drinking water available since it is obviously available everywhere in a perfectly potable format and no one in the world has a shortage of it. Causes are dumb and I really am thankful that you are here to point that out. You are a true godsend! How is it that you have time to be on digg since you are obviously needed by a brain-trust somewhere to solve all of the worlds non-existent problems by pointing out people are stupid for caring about anything. You should go ahead and run along to your next Mensa meeting so you can whip those eggheads into shape! BYE!
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
We've only used our pool a couple times so far this summer here in Toronto...
Hoping for a heatwave to come soon, because swimming in 20 degree (c) weather SUCKS.
amnesiacoperaJul 3, 2010
How do you swim in ice?
/s
justinjohnsonJul 3, 2010
did you not see the (c)?
Either way, Canada uses celsius
myztryJul 3, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzFdFwR3eBY
pardisJul 3, 2010
@ justinjohnson
did you not see the ( /s ) ?
pakobedejoJul 3, 2010
This account has been closed by the user
gerrylazloJul 3, 2010
Shocking? More like barely interesting.
essarJul 3, 2010
Who gives a s**t?
rain12913Jul 3, 2010
Are you aware that your brain gives you the ability to actively select which stories you want to click? That way you can only click on the ones you're interested in...I know, crazy isn't it?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
gravyleavesJul 3, 2010
in this case i was wondering if there was an argument against getting a pool, as i will soon be a homeowner. I was sorely disappointed, and agree with "who gives a s**t" to this story.
energyeinsteinJul 3, 2010
Wouldn't it be better if they attached this info graph to some real implications?
herrmerkelJul 3, 2010
its worth it!
antdudeJul 3, 2010
What/Whose is worth it?
herrmerkelJul 6, 2010
the pool
dkuleszaJul 3, 2010
The chemicals are expensive yes, but this doesn't even mention the added utility cost to run a pump for 8-10 hours a day and if you have a heated pool.
jjankoskyJul 3, 2010
f**k in SWIMMING POOLS!
citrxjJul 3, 2010
Eww... then you'd have to clean it up.
gravyleavesJul 3, 2010
that's what the filter and chlorine you already put in is for
jjankoskyJul 3, 2010
meh, it would have been funnier if I could have made the "in" smaller.
leezusJul 3, 2010
I was gonna suggest salt water pools too!
rain12913Jul 3, 2010
Man, I wish I could keep my pool open 7 months a year. In Boston we're lucky if we get 4-5.
izealotJul 3, 2010
Sucks to live in a desert... I live in Florida and have 15,000 gal in ground. It might cost $15 - $20 per month year round. I have never had to drain it EVER. I might add water once every two/three months or after a big party, normally the rain takes care of it for me. I will say if you adjust your chlorinator property and test your water 2 times a week (more if your are using it a lot) you really can avoid costly chemical treatments by staying on top of it.
Point being the graphic might be an average but I personalty think its BS. the only accurate part is the cost of the pools. Worst inforgraphic I have seen in a while.
yumeJul 3, 2010
Soooooo what's the point?
alienmushroomJul 3, 2010
divinediva is stupid.
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
Just think what would happen if people gave up their pool, just for a month, and donated the money to poverty causes, or AIDS relief in Africa...
Then again, pools = babes, so it's a tough call.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
dvsbastardJul 3, 2010
That is over 39 TRILLION Zimbabwe Dollars for an inground pool per day!
(FYI, this is an equally useless "statistic"...)
virinixJul 3, 2010
I'm seriously trying to give a f**k. But it's just not happening.
rwpriceJul 3, 2010
this is similar to Spare Change. A pretty infographic with false statistics built in that try to convince people that it is truth.
arcofspadesJul 3, 2010
Thats why I live on a lake. You ever seen a jetski in a pool?
burrduggJul 3, 2010
The jetski is what ruins living on a lake.
yourbrokenovenJul 3, 2010
The water doesn't just vanish. It goes into the atmosphere back into the water cycle. The only places it's truly irresponsible to have a ton of swimming pools is a place dependent on a strangled river. I hear the Colorado has had such problems.
ultimaxtreme3Jul 3, 2010
Only thing relevant here is the 25,000 gallons to fill a pool.
Americans pay ~2$ per gallon for purified drinking wat..
brb money
mikeymooseJul 3, 2010
Pools are awesome!
betonaJul 3, 2010
When I had a pool, it seemed like something broke every month and it was always $500-$1000. Pump broke. Skimmer broke. Valve broke. Sweeper broke. Heater broke. Repeat.
doublebaconsodaJul 3, 2010
Most companies really wanted the stuff you bought from them to work great. Now it just seems like they really want their stuff to break as soon as the warranty voids.
fragmasterflashJul 3, 2010
Swimming is damn good exercise.
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
How else are people going to play Marco Polo?
s0nicfreakJul 3, 2010
You could play it in a bath tub, but that's only 1 flag of fun.
inajeepJul 3, 2010
I love the smell of wet concrete of a pool mingling with the chlorine smell. Throw in a cheap blow up raft and it brings me back to summer every time.
I just picked up one of those cheap blow up 900 gal pools. A little bit of chlorine, a few rafts and I'm reliving the summer of my childhood.
vintersemestreJul 3, 2010
It's shocking because you use SHOCK in your pool!
/lame
twinklyjesusJul 3, 2010
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find out swimming is going on here! "Sir, your water wings, sir...." "Yes, quite.."
lennybirdJul 3, 2010
Swimming pools are worth it. The exercise, the fun--hell just looking at them improves my mood.
oxidaneJul 3, 2010
this is random...
anothersoldierJul 3, 2010
thATS WHAt iSAId !
zb757Jul 4, 2010
rANdoM CapiTaLizaTion…
Another reason not to drink and digg
anothersoldierJul 4, 2010
You are??
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
Shocking only to the dopey liberal environazis who think water is something that needs to be rationed. While it may be scarce in certain areas, it's abundant and free everyplace else. Get a life douche-bags.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
birukunJul 3, 2010
Don't forget pools kill more children every year than guns.
BAN POOLS
anothersoldierJul 3, 2010
It's not the pools fault, it's the water residing inside of them! We could fill them full of vegetables and no kid will go anywhere one!
inactiveuserJul 3, 2010
Lets see, $3 a day to see teenagers running around almost naked 4 months of the year or $20 a day at least to see some diseased dirt bag at the strip club?
hmmmm let me think......
newman8rJul 3, 2010
I have an in-ground pool and I don't spend anywhere near $95 per month for chemicals..
frozenketchupJul 3, 2010
Who pooped in the pool?
Closed AccountJul 3, 2010
i dugg it for the little worm in the corner
s0nicfreakJul 3, 2010
But how much money and energy do you save being outside in the pool instead of inside running the central air conditioning? ...Ok, probably none, since I'm sure most people are idiots and leave the central air on while they're out in the pool, but how much money and energy COULD be saved?
Besides, if it's just you or you and your family using the pool, and you cover it when not in use, odds are you don't use $3 worth of chemicals every day.
doublebaconsodaJul 3, 2010
That's why you empty them all and ignore the man skating in your pool.
moriaJul 3, 2010
Does this infographic have any point to it whatsoever?
bugalouJul 3, 2010
Typical crap infographic.
All I get from it is they are some how trying to spin swimming pools as bad for the environment and some how evil. Sure they are a luxury but we have bigger fish to fry environmentally. With the GoM full of crude, no real plan to ditch the use of fossil fuels, and Joe Blow still pouring motor oil down the storm drain cause he doesn't feel like driving to autozone, swimming pools rank at about #1,035,868 on things to worry about with the environment.
yobladJul 3, 2010
f**k swimming pools and f**k lawns