Castle on the Hill

In our fifth year of drought, how can anyone feel entitled to aesthetic luxuries such as Mr. Rorabaugh’s humongous swimming pool, which requires 288,000 gallons of water, “plus two 900-gallon aquariums, koi pools, waterfalls and ponds galore”? (“Millionaire’s Dream Castle Rises on a Rancho Santa Fe Hill,” Feb. 10.)

We are concerned about keeping our 150 avocado trees and family fruit trees alive.

Surely this will be a magnificent showplace. Imagine, a 22-car garage. The article did not give the number of bathrooms, but if correlated to the square footage of the house and the garage, it must have, at the very least, 25 to 30. I wonder if the Rorabaughs glance at Lake Hodges when they drive by and wonder where the water went?

RUTH BOWMAN, Fallbrook