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Listen: FutureStructure Podcast - Swimming Pools and Sustainability

Backyard pools are not the first thing you think of when it comes to saving the earth. But they can be made to be better behaved too.

It is an ostentatious first world problem. Thousands of backyard pools in attractive neighborhoods in San Diego. Pool pumps have emerged as the single biggest drain on energy systems. A pilot program is doing 250 million kilowatt hours of good in mitigating the problem.

 

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Paul W. Taylor is the Senior Editor of e.Republic Editorial and of its flagship titles - Government Technology and Governing.