Let's hear the golf water consumption tangent perhaps? 👀 (Saying as someone who prefers mini-golf)
Okay so I love golf. I really do. But golf courses are such a fucking waste of space and resources. A golf course is anywhere from 20 to 200 acres of open land. For comparison, a football field is 1.32 acres.
And that open land is JUST grass. Manicured grass. Nothing else. You may have little patches of trees or shrubs, but the point of a golf course is to hit the ball to the goal in as few shots as possible, meaning you need to hit it as FAR as possible in your early shots, meaning your pathway needs to be unobstructed.
The average amount to keep a lawn "watered" properly is one inch per week. Apparently there is 27,154 gallons in 1 acre inch of water. For a football field, which is, again only 1.3 acres, that's 35,843 gallons per week. (27,154 x 1.32) Only about half of the 30 total NFL stadiums use actual grass, while the rest use artificial turf.
For a 20 acre golf course that is 543,080 gallons of water/week, for 200 it is 5,430,800 GALLONS OF WATER EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
A football field uses 6.6% of the water if the SMALLER end of golf courses. That means a FOOTBALL FIELD uses 0.66% of the water of the biggest golf courses.
One person, on average, drinks 58 GALLONS OF WATER PER YEAR!!!!!!
This math works out to the SMALLEST golf courses using enough water for 486,899 people to drink in a year.
Not to mention that the average size of a plot of land for a detached suburban house is ONE FIFTH of an acre, meaning a 20 acre golf course could house 100 people and a 200 acre golf course house 1,000 people. Plots of land in my town are around HALF that, so if you put houses as close together as where I live, you could house DOUBLE the amount of people. And this isn't even accounting for more than one person living in a home.
Golf courses are an INSANE waste of space and resources that could be better used to take care of people.
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