
Gondolas ferry honeymooners around canals modelled on those of
Venice, Roman-themed swimming pools stretch for acres, and thousands of
sprinklers keep golf courses lush in the middle of the desert.
But, as with many things in Sin City, the apparently endless supply of water is an illusion. America’s
most decadent destination has been engaged in a potentially
catastrophic gamble with nature and now, 14 years into a devastating
drought, it is on the verge of losing it all.
“The situation is as bad as you can imagine,” said Tim Barnett, a
climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It’s just
going to be screwed. And relatively quickly. Unless it can find a way
to get more water from somewhere Las Vegas is out of business. Yet
they’re still building, which is stupid.”
The crisis stems from the Las Vegas’s complete reliance on Lake Mead,
America’s largest reservoir, which was created by the Hoover Dam in
1936 – after which it took six years to fill completely.
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