now this is one big pool...

[CPA]

That's not a huge deal. 66 million gallons is a lot, but not an outrageous amount of water to obtain. Assuming $1/1k gallons, that's $66k to fill it. That's probably close to the monthly usage for a medium sized town. In the US, the average person uses about 100 gallons/day, so that's about the monthly use of 22k people.

The real issue is treating and cycling the water, just like your freshwater pool at home. You'd need an absolutely ridiculous amount of chlorine. If it was in the US, I'd imagine there would be crazy ecological pressures around it. Chile might be cool with it, but it's still much easier to use ocean water that they can dump right back in when cycling it.

It's actually 176 gallons, which surprised me. I thought it would be much lower.

 

[purbeast0]

i was reading some reviews of that place ... doesn't seem like it is a good place to go though.

 

[gothamhunter]

Fill it with this stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcS-C-OwphI&feature=related

 

[HardcoreRobot]

dubai is not impressed (and secretly jealous)

 

[Anonemous]

Nice, but why the large depth?

 

[ThePresence]

Gonna suck when they have to replace the liner.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Nice, but why the large depth?

perhaps advanced recreational SCUBA training? it really would be cool if someone released some fish in there... would probably be hell to catch and remove them. though they would probably die due to no food.

 

[Train]

I imagine it's only 115 ft deep in a certain spot? Surely the entire thing is not that deep. Didnt see anything in the article about that.