DWP boss Nahai fingered as a prolific water waster
H. David Nahai, the General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is right up there in the stratosphere of water wasters. After being badgered by LA Sniper Alan Mittelstaedt, Nahai released an audit of his own water and power use at his Benedict Canyon home to the The Daily News.
Nahai’s water use exceeds the previous record holder of LA’s elected officials, the prolific water waster Rocky Delgadillo.
The average per person water consumption of LADWP customers is 56,576 gallons per year or 163,000 gallons for the average 3 person household.
- H. David Nahai (DWP General Manager) – 434,220
(a staggering 310% times more than my household!!) - Rocky Delgadillo (City attorney) – 423,368 gallons
- Mayor Villaraigosa – 386,716 gallons
- Jack Weiss – 254,320 gallons
- Bill Rosendahl – 230,384 gallons
- Tony Cardenas – 219,912 gallons
- Greig Smith – 219,164 gallons
- Dennis Zine – 194,480 gallons
- Wendy Gruel – 190,740 gallons
- Jose Huizar – 142,120 gallons
- Eric Garcetti – 88,264 gallons
- Janice Hahn – 83,776 gallons
- Bernard Parks – 35,156 gallons
Mayor Villaraigosa should be happy to hear that once Nahai goes through the twelve step program gets his water use under control, the mayor and his planning commissioners will be able to entitle that water to downtown developers for another 8 housing units and keep us trapped in a cycle of perpetual water shortages.
Ron Kaye of RonKayeLA has this to say about the story on the DWP boss:
Like Nahai, I have low-flush toilets and I recirculate water in my pool and I have a low-energy, low water consuming washing machiine. Unlike him, I have other low energy appliances as well. You could fit five of my houses inside his so you can bet I don’t have anywhere near the amount of light bulbs or air conditioning use.
Here’s an idea: Instead of gouging the little people with endless rate hikes, what if we determine the average residential use of water and power and start charging people sharply higher rates when they go above that. And for people like Nahai maybe we should charge five to 10 times the average rate.
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