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We get it.<\/p>\n
For casino resorts, it’s a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. Use water, get criticized. Get rid of water features, get criticized.<\/p>\n
Casinos are doing just fine, they can take the heat.<\/p>\n
We just hate knee-jerk reactions to exaggerated doom-and-gloom predictions. Water is sexy, dirt isn’t.<\/p>\n
Here’s another example of how some casinos are addressing concerns.<\/p>\n
New York-New York has replaced its water feature at the base of the Statue of Liberty with what appears to be a putting green.<\/p>\n Big thanks to our friend @JamesinLasVegas<\/a> for the pics.<\/p>\n It doesn’t look bad, it just doesn’t look as good.<\/p>\n Conservation is great, as long as its not at the expense of things that make Las Vegas more magical.<\/p>\n Hotels also claim they don’t do daily housekeeping because of green initiatives. Unmitigated cow dung. It’s a cost-saving measure.<\/p>\n In the case of replacing water with sand and turf, it’s a slippery slope.<\/p>\n Thankfully, nobody’s eyeballing the Bellagio fountains. Bellagio has its own private well.<\/p>\n We don’t have three hours to explain why the reported crisis isn’t really a crisis, but let’s just say everyone needs to stop whining whenever a new casino is announced. There’s a reason they invented this way of writing things, “BuT tHE wATer!” It’s a way of mocking people without them realize they’re being mocked.<\/p>\n If and when we run out of water in a decade (we’ve been about to run out of fresh water since the 1970s), please remember more than 70% of the Earth’s surface is water.<\/p>\n When the time comes, Elon Musk will build a ton of desalination plants and we’ll have our water brought in by flying cars and other methods.<\/p>\n We’ll be fine.<\/p>\n If you insist upon freaking out about water, stop playing golf.<\/p>\n Stop ruining Las Vegas.<\/p>\n Update (7\/2\/24): Mandalay Bay had bailed on its Valley of the Falls, replacing it with fugly. Presumably, under cover of the supposed water shortage. Just awful.<\/p>\n Mandalay Bay removed the water from Valley of the Falls and put in some foliage.<\/p>\n Looks like they just gave it a new name.<\/p>\n The Enchanted Garden@LasVegasLocally<\/a> @VitalVegas<\/a> @TheVegasVice<\/a> @JacobsVegasLife<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/OPEBITCjws<\/a><\/p>\n — Chris Holmes (@seventensuited) July 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/nyny_grass-845x563.jpg\")
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