Where's the Water?
February 28th 2008 09:10
I don’t want to knock any particular place in the world, but when it comes to dealing with matters of conservation, Las Vegas doesn’t come very close to the top of the list.
Here’s a city in the middle of the desert where water is consumed by the bucketload every second of the day. Wait, make that the truckload.
The Colorado River has dried up as a result of climate change, say some of the locals. I suspect it’s dried up because it’s been sucked dry by the City of Greed. Climate change may have something to do with it, but it would take an awful lot of rainfall (something that doesn’t happen naturally in this part of the world anyway) to compensate for the glorious guzzling fountains you can watch from your cheap hotel Las Vegas, or the endless amounts of water used in the sinking of the pirate ship, or the fathoms of water drunk by the endless stream (no pun intended) of visitors, or used to wash their precious bodies or drained away by people without a thought as to where the next tapful is coming from.
I don’t intend to use this site as a place to rant, particularly, but even before Global Warming, climate change, green and all the other current things came to the fore, Las Vegas always struck me as a city of excess – exceeding excess, if you can have such a thing.
And don’t get me started on electricity usage. Las Vegas appears to live in a kind of perpetual night. I’m sure they do have daylight in that place, but a huge number of people live and work inside heavily lit buildings where daylight is never allowed.
Oh, well, when they run out of water, it might not be much fun to go there anymore. Or when electricity isn’t available, playing the pokies in the dark mightn’t be too much of an option.
Here’s a city in the middle of the desert where water is consumed by the bucketload every second of the day. Wait, make that the truckload.
The Colorado River has dried up as a result of climate change, say some of the locals. I suspect it’s dried up because it’s been sucked dry by the City of Greed. Climate change may have something to do with it, but it would take an awful lot of rainfall (something that doesn’t happen naturally in this part of the world anyway) to compensate for the glorious guzzling fountains you can watch from your cheap hotel Las Vegas, or the endless amounts of water used in the sinking of the pirate ship, or the fathoms of water drunk by the endless stream (no pun intended) of visitors, or used to wash their precious bodies or drained away by people without a thought as to where the next tapful is coming from.
I don’t intend to use this site as a place to rant, particularly, but even before Global Warming, climate change, green and all the other current things came to the fore, Las Vegas always struck me as a city of excess – exceeding excess, if you can have such a thing.
And don’t get me started on electricity usage. Las Vegas appears to live in a kind of perpetual night. I’m sure they do have daylight in that place, but a huge number of people live and work inside heavily lit buildings where daylight is never allowed.
Oh, well, when they run out of water, it might not be much fun to go there anymore. Or when electricity isn’t available, playing the pokies in the dark mightn’t be too much of an option.
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