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Sep 20, 2016
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The biggest water users in Bel Air
California's drought is still bad, but there's at least one neighborhood here in L.A. that's got plenty of green in both their yards and their wallets: Bel Air.
File photo taken March 29, 2015 shows a field being watered in Kern County.
File photo taken March 29, 2015 shows a field being watered in Kern County.
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California's drought is still bad, but there's at least one neighborhood here in L.A. that's got plenty of green in both their yards and their wallets: Bel Air.

You'd have to burying your head in the dirt not to know that California is going through a bad drought, but there's at least one neighborhood in L.A. that's got plenty of green in both their yards and their wallets: Bel Air.

It turns out it's home to some of the area's most expensive real estate and home to the area's most flagrant water hogs. 

One estate there poured almost twelve million gallons of water on its grounds in a single year. And it's not alone in that multi-million gallon club.

Lance Williams is a reporter with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and he reported on the topic.

If you want to hear the entire conversation click on the audio at the top of the post.