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In water use, these folks reign.(The Seattle Times)
SEATTLE _ Call it the trickle-down theory: Of all the lush lawns and manicured gardens in Seattle, one of the homes using the most water this year is maintained, in part, by taxpayers.
In the first quarter of 2001 _ as University of Washington scientists and other public officials were warning of a pending drought _ the university president's mansion consumed nearly three times what the median Seattle area household does in a whole year.
In fact, in those three months the ornately landscaped 35-room, 1.37-acre property went through 212,000 gallons, according to figures from Seattle Public Utilities. The median household uses about 80,000 gallons a year.
"Nobody here can answer the question precisely why it happened," said Jerri McCray, assistant vice president for facilities at the UW.
As residents are being asked to cut back water use by 10 percent during this year's drought, many of the top residential water customers are struggling to come to grips with how much H20 they use _ and where it goes.
A Seattle Times public-records request for the top residential water users in Seattle and Bellevue showed that some of the area's thirstiest households used 20 or even 50 times more water than most homeowners.
No. 1 in both communities: Bill Gates.
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