Because, alas, fun must be killed in San Francisco seemingly at every turn, an effort is underway to put the kibosh on San Francisco's upcoming 1,000-foot waterslide. Whose dry idea is this? A concerned citizen (understandably) worried about said slide's massive water consumption. 

Paul Duffy has created an online petition to stop the waterslide set to grace San Francisco in July. The petition bemoans:

"California is entering another year of drought and many of us within the state are taking necessary steps to conserve water. Taking shorter showers, washing cars less, leaving swimming pools empty, letting our lawns go brown, all to conserve the small amount of water this area has.

"'Slide the City' is a company based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, and plans to have these slide events in 15 cities throughout California in 2015. On their website, www.slidethecity.com, there is no explanation for how much water will be used per event nor does the company make any attempt to explain where the water will come from."

Makes sense. Sigh.

However, the gargantuan slip 'n' slide will reportedly recycle at least two-thirds of water it uses.

"A day of sliding would use between 13,000 and 15,000 gallons of water—about one-twentieth of what an average golf course goes through in a day," reports Curbed SF, "Slide the City would be able to recover somewhere between 10,000 and 11,000 gallons of that for recycling."

So far the petition has garnered 965 signatures.