Need to fill a pool fast? Compare the two real options side by side — running a garden hose for days on tap water, or paying for water-truck deliveries — by time and total cost.
Filling from a hose is cheap but slow: a garden hose moves roughly 9–18 gallons a minute depending on its size and your water pressure, so a typical pool takes a day or more of continuous running. Water-truck delivery is fast but costs more: your volume is divided by the tanker capacity (commonly 2,000–6,000 gallons) to find how many loads you need, then multiplied by the delivery price. This calculator shows both — fill time and total cost — so you can pick based on how fast you need it.
Water prices are intensely local, so enter your own utility rate rather than trusting a national average — and check whether filling a pool pushes you into a higher tier or adds sewer charges, which the calculator can include. Hose flow is an estimate from hose size; for precision, time how long your hose takes to fill a known container and enter the measured rate. Truck delivery prices vary by region and haul distance, so get a local quote — the per-load figure here is a starting point, not a fixed rate.