May 30th 2008
Celine Dion’s Empty Florida Estate Guzzles 6.5 Million Gallons Of Agua
and you thought your showers were long...
Filed under: buildings and construction, cars-houses, not green — michael @ 8:15 pm
With Florida facing yet another dismal summer to go along with a nearly two-year drought, people are starting to point fingers and raise hell over those not changing their water-wasting ways. On Jupiter Island, Fla., if you’re Celine Dion — and you’re building a $20 million 9,800-square-foot estate — you better believe even more attention will be paid to your activities.
Hence the Palm Beach Post’s recent investigation into Celine’s water consumption — which found that the star’s new home consumed roughly 6.5 million gallons of water last year, almost 100 times more than the average resident. Icing on the cake? She doesn’t even live there yet. It’s still under construction! From the article,
“‘People are pretty much permitted to use as much water as they want. [The district] has allowed people to over-water,’ said the Sierra Club’s Drew Martin. ‘If someone like Celine Dion planted natural plants and used ‘zeroscaping,’ then she probably wouldn’t need to use so much water. … The state’s basically going to run out of water because we do not restrict what people used in the first place.’”
Continue reading why Celine’s home water use isn’t unusual on Jupiter Island…
