with california in the midst of a historic drought emergency tonight some of the biggest names in hollywood are finding themselves in hot water [Music] the kardashians dwyane wade sylvester stallone and kevin hart among the 2 000 plus customers warned for excessive water usage according to notices of exceedance obtained by the la times nbc has not seen the documents but a spokesperson for the los virginis water district confirming their contents our reservoirs are severely depleted the land is incredibly dry there is not a lot of water to go around in june the district which serves a
large portion of los angeles county implementing strict usage guidelines including limiting residents to just eight minutes a week of outdoor watering alright so now we're in my backyard but some celebrities failing to play their part properties belonging to kim and kourtney kardashian using a combined excess of 333 000 gallons of water enough to fill up half of an olympic-sized swimming pool a calabasas home belonging to actor kevin hart exceeding its monthly budget 519 percent in june sylvester stallone's 18 million dollar home guzzling up more than 533 percent more than its allotment and former nba star
dwayne wade and actress gabrielle union using up a whopping 1400 of the water budget at their hidden hills homes the couple telling the la times in a statement that a pool issue that has since been fixed was to blame adding they will continue to go to extensive lengths to rectify the issue a representative for stallone telling nbc news the rocky star has more than 500 mature trees on the property that need to be watered adding he's addressing the situation responsibly and proactively representatives for heart and the kardashians did not respond to nbc's request for comment
it doesn't matter if it's a celebrity it doesn't matter if it's somebody who doesn't have the same means everybody's treated completely equal we're serious about this this is critical and we need everybody to be part of that solution all right gotti schwartz joins us now live from los angeles scotty this is so strange because celebrities claim to be environmentalists and these are big name celebrities taking steps to curb their usage i guess they're not but for those who don't cut back what can the city do money is clearly not an object for some of these
people with these massive homes yeah tommy you hit it right on the head how do you get somebody to comply when they have millions and millions of dollars and even huge fines are just a nuisance well you got to think good old-fashioned grounding like when we were kids first come a couple of warnings then fines then water districts will slap a regulator on your water main i think we've got a picture of one these will slow down the flow to your house to basically a trickle so high water pressure for those fancy mansions forget about
it they keep them on for two weeks or until the owner promises to comply if they don't tom then you're water grounded for a month so as far as we know about 20 homes with the most egregious violations have those in salt installed but no celebrities that we know of have yet made that list so we'll keep you posted gotti real quick while i have you there are a few celebrities bigger than gotti schwartz has the schwartz family been cited yet i i you're looking i get this is my magic green tree i mean you
heard some people have like yeah it's very green and i am very obsessed with getting this tree all the water that it needs as long as we comply so that means stealing from the other plants in my yard and if i have to like take bath water and water this tree i just i don't want to lose my grapefruits they're so delicious you know daddy schwartz had a green thumb who knew all right gotti we appreciate that thanks for watching our youtube channel follow today's top stories and breaking news by downloading the nbc news app
you
