1. Las Vegas : Symbol for the waste of water :
Everyday they announce in medias that countries, like afrcica, has a of lack of water. However by
the infomations we get, there are countries that don’t suppose the idea of using less liter water to
entertain the business. The big city on this subject is the king of the casino and the touristes, the
brilliant fountains that makes dreaming: LAS VEGAS!
Las Vegas, the temple of shopping and the destination of tourism of the first ordre, is not what we
call economique at the level of sustainable developpment. In fact the consommation of water in Las
Vegas, with 40 millions of visitants, is 1000 liters a day for each person…
Situated in the mittle of the desert, the city of play is also the city of the misgovernment. Not talking
about the casinos and their climatisation that prompts fresh air, almost immediately frosted at the
outside of Las Vegas, then the 12000 hotel rooms of the city make the whole water and waste
without any remote and regret. Even without talking about the swimming pools, the trowed water
outside and inside as well as the presentations aquatics… You think you’re in an aquatic park.
The statistics are saying, ¾ from the consommation of water in Las Vegas is made by gardens as
well as by golfs. The city of play takes its ressources of water from the sea Mead which has abated
in 10 years half of the puncture growing.