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D-Wade, Kim K, Sly Stallone and Kevin Hart accused of MASSIVE water waste in a SEVER drought
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beenz
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500K overage is egregious.
my house uses like 36K gallons in an entire year. this is for a full house. u can't fathom how wasteful they are to go over by 500K in a single month.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
celebrities are by large the biggest group of narcississts on the earth. their entire existence consist of a "look at me" attitude.
Lol
Dog Based Gremlin
Veteran
The Kardashian Klan stay wet
Slaimon Khan Shah
SLAIMON KHAN SHAH = SHAOLIN MONK/S OF ISLAAM
That is quite interesting in my opinion!
I Slaimon Khan Shah (The King Bee) am all about being the very best towards the environment!
I Slaimon Khan Shah (The King Bee) am all about being the very best towards the environment!
Rich people are evil
They should use desalination plants for water for lawns and all that outside bullshyt.
and the Colorado for the drinking water.
and the Colorado for the drinking water.
that is very tone deaf lol, if I was this rich I would invest HEAVILY in making my home energy efficient (solar panels) and develop ways to make it sustainableThis is outrageous. The west coast is having a crazy drought and these fukking a$$holes are simply ignoring restrictions and wasting egretious amounts of water for shyt like swimming pools and watering lawns is dumb as fukk.
to put this in perspective, these fukking c0cksuckers are going hundreds of thousands of gallons over the water limit with no fukks given except for having to pay a minimal fine. compared this to me, who lives in an area with ample water available, I use 3000 gallons TOTAL every 2 months. that's how much water they are using. And I'm sure ALL the celebrities and rich elite out in LA are pulling the same bullshyt. they want everyone else to conserve, but these greedy fukks ain't gonna do their part. they are wasting water on pools and grass when california NEEDS this water to irrigate crops and produce food.
Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart and Sylvester Stallone are accused of massive water waste
To paraphrase Kim Kardashian, it seems like nobody wants to conserve water these days. The celebrities are on a long list of rich and famous LA residents who received notices for excessive water use.www.npr.org
Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart and Sylvester Stallone are accused of massive water waste
- August 24, 20225:01 AM ET
VANESSA ROMO
Some of Los Angeles' most famous celebrities are getting put on blast after being outed for their excessive water use amid a severe drought emergency throughout Southern California.
Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney are among Southern California's worst offenders, Mike McNutt, a spokesman for the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District told NPR.
The pair have received "notices of exceedance" from the district, which serves the wealthy cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills and Westlake Village. Those notices are given to district residents who have surpassed their monthly water usage budget allotted by the department at least four times, McNutt said.
And the reality stars are not the only ones.
Comedian Kevin Hart, former NBA star Dwyane Wade and his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, and Sylvester Stallone have also continued to exceed district limits despite repeated warnings and fines. Now, the water department could install flow restriction devices that can reduce gushing showers to a mere trickle, and would almost certainly turn the rolling lawns surrounding their respective mansions brown.
The violations were first reported by the Los Angeles Times. On Tuesday, McNutt confirmed the data, adding that, in all, more than 1,600 residents are breaking the rules.
He noted that the district is 100% reliant on imported water from the Sierra Nevada mountains 400 miles away. "We have no groundwater, we have no other alternative sources to draw from," he added.
McNutt said the Kardashians have flouted their official water allowance by 150% or more for several months since water conservation efforts were first implemented at the end of last year.
By the utility's count, he said, Kim Kardashian's two adjoining lots in Hidden Hills, guzzled their June allotment and then some, going over by about 232,000 gallons. Her sister, Kourtney, who lives in Calabasas, drained another 101,000 gallons in excess. Combined, that amount of water would fill half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
Dwyane Wade and wife Gabrielle Union appear to have begun to make some progress in reining in water usage on their property in the month of June, going over by 90,000 gallons. But their May bill was staggering — they used an extra 489,000 gallons of water that month due to a swimming pool malfunction, the couple said in a statement to the Times.
Meanwhile, a representative for Sylvester Stallone and his model wife, Jennifer Flavin, told the Times that their property has many large, mature fruit trees that would be at risk without sufficient watering. In June, the couple used 230,000 excess gallons of water – more than 533% than their allocated budget.
Kevin Hart's 26-acre Calabasas property also got more than 117,000 gallons than is budgeted for such a parcel.
McNutt explained the department has a formula for calculating fines for those who flagrantly eschew conservation guidelines. But he acknowledges that they're hardly a deterrent for the rich and famous.
"For the celebrities or musicians or athletes who all live in the area, monetary penalties are going to be meaningless to them because it doesn't matter. They have plenty of money and if they want to, they could spend $5,000 a month on a water bill," he said.
Indeed, Kim Kardashian, whose empire now includes a line of undergarments called Skims, was billed approximately $2,325 for her overuse. That's the equivalent of about 38 bodysuits, which retail for $62 a piece. Hart's fine for June, is about $1,170, less than the cost of three second-row tickets to the comedian's show in Chicago on Thursday. (Single tickets are selling for $382 each, plus fees.)
Now the district wants to hit people where it really hurts.
According to McNutt, that would mean installing a flow restriction device that would automatically reduce outside water usage by 70%.
People who prioritize lush, green landscaping over conservation must "understand that what they're doing is they're taking water away from somebody that could be miles and miles and miles away ... who needs it for cooking, cleaning, or bathing," McNutt said.
NPR's Greta Pittenger contributed to this report.
unfortunately, you HAVE to live in LA just because it's the entertainment capital once you reach a certain level
i said don't come at me with that, because i already proved it wrong.
and sometimes it's vice versa, like when corporations actually take responsibility for certain things, it's weird when people can't get on track for simple issues or issues of a great magnitude.
get these nets
Veteran
The PR machines are already typing up the "but then I'd have to fire my pool guy and gardener" excuses for celebs to cop to tomorrow.
Next month, one celeb will post a video of "hey, I'm draining /repurposing the water from my pool, jacuzzi to help conserve water" and it will be a trend that other celebs follow (publicly)
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humminbird
Veteran
the solution would be for them to ship their water from other places
they're eating those fines like cupcakes
they're eating those fines like cupcakes
