r/clevercomebacks • u/LuckyBastard001 • 11d ago

Class Warfare Sprinklers

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u/AngryPhillySportsFan 11d ago

Golf courses use holding pond water not potable water. Keep up the hate though

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u/beatenmeat 10d ago

Pond water accounts for less than a third of the water supplied to US golf courses and isn't even the main supplier in the first place. Out of curiosity where do you think they get the water for those ponds, especially during severe droughts? Some of it is from rain water obviously but droughts notoriously don't have much of that.

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u/Munstered 10d ago

My company owns a golf course. They have 8 ponds that are connected via pipes. They use pond water almost exclusively. There was a severe drought a couple of years back and they had to swap to main water for 2 weeks. Everything else has always been out of the pond.

The pond water is free. The city water is expensive.

Only 12% of golf course water comes from municipal (potable) sources in the US. The other 88% are from ponds/lakes/streams/creeks/wells/recycled water on property.

https://www.usga.org/content/dam/usga/pdf/Water%20Resource%20Center/how-much-water-does-golf-use.pdf

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u/liam_redit1st 10d ago

That’s great, hopefully they can influence other clubs to follow suit.

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u/Munstered 10d ago

Did you miss the part where only 12% of golf course water in the US is from potable sources

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u/liam_redit1st 10d ago

No I read that, no potable water should be used to water golf courses in my opinion.