… [Tucson-area] utilities, including Tucson Water, held a free public workshop Saturday and will hold a second one on Aug. 2 to explain how people who want to remove their pools can do that and how people can better understand the costs of pools they swim in at home.The Tucson area has plenty of private pools today — more than 59,000, or 18.7% of all residential parcels in Pima County, says longtime Tucson water researcher Gary Woodard. He cited December 2024 statistics he got from the Pima County Assessor’s Office. And they use plenty of water — an average of about 30,000 gallons a year. That’s almost half the average Tucson Water household’s annual water consumption, according to a news release announcing the pool removal workshops.