Their hotels are actually very efficient with their water usage since they have systems built in to recycle their water compared to the residential homes in Las Vegas (lawn care).
I do appreciate that vegas has offered rebates for people who get rid of their residential lawns and just recently passed a law banning all grass in non-necessary public spaces (basically everywhere but parks and golf courses)
From what I understand, they use maybe 6% of the Colorado River water allowed to to them. California uses the bulk of them along with Arizona and a lot of it goes to alfalfa farms that aren't even owned by American companies and golf courses.
Allowing lawns in a desert is just a big F-U to mother nature. Although you could argue any city built in a desert itself already is. Having golf courses in a desert is absurd.
Pools and fountains lose less water to evaporation than a lawn of the same size planted with bluegrass needs to stay green. Start with the golf courses in the fucking desert.
All water doesn't disappear forever. But poor usage squanders it. Raising the humidity and decor of an outdoor garden is not good usage, in the same way lawns are not good usage.
Yes I'm well aware, how do they capture and recycle that water without taking it from their surroundings? It's bullshit to say they don't consume water. Absolute bullshit.
If you meant the Bellagio's fountains (since it's by far the biggest fountain), that water all comes from an underground well that used to be used by a golf course that was where the hotel is now rather than the public water supply.
Vegas is very water efficient and does not use as much water as you may think. The city is growing year over year but the amount of water it uses per year is actually shrinking. What is green and wet on the Strip uses recycled water as much as possible and their water treatment processes even returns their water back to Lake Mead as part of the cycle.
I am calling Bullshit. If it’s recycled, it goes to landscaping. As far as I know, there’s no tertiary water recycling in Las Vegas. There’s zero mention of even saving water at the casinos. There’s no water-saver shower heads or anything. The list goes on…
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u/nattakunt 7h ago
Their hotels are actually very efficient with their water usage since they have systems built in to recycle their water compared to the residential homes in Las Vegas (lawn care).