Nahai admits to water overuse

As city leaders urge residents to trim energy and water usage amid the sweltering summer months, a home audit of the chief of L.A.'s Department of Water and Power has found that even the champion of conservation is not doing enough to cut back. Beth Barrett in the Daily News.

Auditors last month found that lawn sprinklers at General Manager H. David Nahai's 6,000-square-foot Deep Canyon Drive home had come on every single night for more than a year - summer or winter, rain or shine.

The watering resulted in about a foot of subsurface moisture and boosted the general manager's average water consumption - 36,185 gallons a month, or 1,190 gallons a day - higher than most of his neighbors.