WATER CONSERVATION PROGRAMS

Current water shortages in parts of the nation, especially as mentioned in the western US areas like Las Vegas, are requiring communities to be on year round water restrictions and may potentially drive the increased demand and expansion of the pool cover market. Programs such as Water Smart in the Las Vegas area, and Water Sense sponsored by the EPA are dedicated to conservation. Additional programs by agencies offer pool cover REBATES at participating dealers.

THE HALF COVER SOLUTION

To do our part in the fight for water conservation nationwide, we are encouraging the innovative "half pool cover" distribution model that greatly assist in supplying stores everywhere with stock on hand.

Why? Half pool covers in "4 sizes" can accommodate any size pool up to L-shape pools and are more compact to stock and distribute (ship) not incurring oversize shipping charges, so distribution is practical in contrast to full size covers in over 50 sizes that are large and bulky.

In this way over time we will be helping to save "billions" of gallons of wasted water nationwide, by facilitating the distribution of pool covers to fulfill the vision of our company charter.

It takes about only 200 pools using a cover to save an entire city tank of water because a pool left unchecked for a year can completely evaporate... and that's a lot of water wasted!

WATER LOSS CALCULATIONS

Let's calculate the number of wasted city tanks of drinking water through evaporation by swimming pools.

SACRAMENTO: If using an average evaporation rate of 17,500 gallons/pool annually, it takes only 200 pools to waste an entire city tank of water. If Sacramento has over 50,000 pools, then Sacramento alone wastes 250 tanks of city water every year (or) 2,125,000,000 (that's BILLION) gallons of water every year!

What's that make you think about when they start rationing water and your lawn's going brown, while your bill's going up? Our 17,500 gallon/annual evaporation figure is probably conservative (other reports site 1.5"/week). Here are some evaporation figures for Australia (click here). Multiply liters by .264 to get gallons. One average states over 86,000 liters per year, or over 22,700 gallons annually evaporates from the pool.

NATIONWIDE: If the nation has around 8.5 million inground swimming pools, then nationally we waste 42,500 tanks of water every year. This amounts to 42,500(tanks) x 3,500,000(gals) = 148,750,000,000 gallons of water annually in the US alone. Again, that's BILLIONS!

ABOVEGROUND POOLS TOO! Now approximate an additional 30% for aboveground pools to add another 45 billion gallons of water wasted and we are looking at almost 200 Billions gallons of water annually in the US ... WASTED. If you say "so what" to water conservation, think about the cost of energy used to process and create drinking water!

WORLDWIDE: Now think worldwide and help get the word out that 1/2 pool covers are the SOLUTION for WATER CONSERVATION because HALF COVERS work on almost ALL POOLS...