{"id":1439,"date":"2010-03-11T20:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T02:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2010-03-11T20:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T02:16:38","slug":"water-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/water-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/03\/chart-of-the-day-3.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Yglesias<\/a>, a great chart from the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/olympic-hockey\/schedule-and-results\/mens-gold-medal-game---game-30_ihm400101EY.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Medal hockey game<\/a> between Canada and the US in Vancouver.\u00a0\u00a0 When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/entertainment\/Canada+Olympic+hockey+final+gold+ratings\/2628549\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">2\/3rds of the entire country<\/a> is watching, you know it&#8217;s a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>This chart looks at the water consumption in Edmonton, Alberta over the course of the game &#8211; comparing it to the day before, an average weekend day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/flush_game.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1440\" title=\"flush_game\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/flush_game.jpg?resize=619%2C423\" alt=\"flush_game\" width=\"619\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/flush_game.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/flush_game.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see the tension building with higher peaks after each period.\u00a0 Now you can see why one of the major milestones for any new sports stadium is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cleveland.com\/metro\/2007\/08\/browns_stadium_passes_the_flus.html\" target=\"_blank\">flushing all of the toilets<\/a> and urinals at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Matt Yglesias, a great chart from the recent Gold Medal hockey game between Canada and the US in Vancouver.\u00a0\u00a0 When 2\/3rds of the entire country is watching, you know it&#8217;s a big deal. This chart looks at the water consumption in Edmonton, Alberta over the course of the game &#8211; comparing it to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,40],"tags":[183,182,109,483,160,181],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","category-storm-water","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-hockey","tag-infrastructure","tag-water","tag-water-use"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pHcGQ-nd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexblock.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}