It doesn’t look like either Atlanta or DeKalb can say they cut water consumption by 10% vs. last year, as randomly mandated by the governor during the height of drought coverage.

Meanwhile, it seems that both Cobb and Gwinnett can claim success. Cobb just had to publicly embarrass Chris George Carlos into not flooding his lawns, while Gwinnett cut back using fuzzy math that excludes water sold to cities.

Can you take a shower in math?  Only in MathMagic Land.

If you’ve been paying attention to local or national news, you may have heard about one water user in Atlanta that’s consuming a lot more than everyone else. About 60 times more. That’s about 400,000 gallons a month.

Well, David over at Decatur-DeKalb reports that WSB 750 radio is saying that Carlos has said that he will cut back water usage. Channel 2 now has the full story.  It seems that the 400,000 gallons a month claim was slightly over stated.  It was ONLY 121,000!  Apparently, Carlos was having his landscapers continuous change out plantings so he was still within the law.

David has also done some impressive bloggeresque digging to nearly linking the water guzzler with Emory’s Michael C. Carlos benefactor.

I’m not sure this means much to Emory. The university only accepts cash, not tap water.