Mr. Allman wryly tells the story of how Disney interests used shadow companies, shrewd legal maneuvering and a compliant state legislature to take absolute control of the 47 square miles of central Florida wasteland that became Disney World and turned the Orlando area into an El Dorado of amusement.
Although our absolute water use exceeded our initial baseline, we also increased our total real estate square footage, which led to a decrease in water use per square foot.