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[water trickling]

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[Music: Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach - "Hotel Brand"]

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♪ Can you feel it ♪

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♪ There's a change coming over me ♪

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♪ Can you see ♪

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♪ There's a change coming over me ♪

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This is the 17th year of a drought cycle.

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A warming climate.

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More water demand.

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More evaporation.

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Catastrophic weather events.

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Three more feet and you have the first shortage declaration.

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[construction noise]

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You should've seen this in the late 70s, early 80s,

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when this was the Dunes and all this

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was golf course back here.

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None of this was here.

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Forget it!

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It was empty.

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Dead smack dab on that corner

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was the entrance to the Dunes Hotel.

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It's the city that shouldn't be.

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Nobody ever expected Las Vegas.

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It was the existence of water that created Las Vegas.

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This was an oasis in the desert.

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What brought people here was the groundwater

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and the springs.

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Essentially we are in the heart

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of the Mojave Desert, and the property we're standing on

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is called the Springs Preserve, which has a history

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that dates back, boy, 4,000-plus years

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there were people living here.

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This is one of the original water derricks.

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Before all the modern well sites were installed

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with electric pumps and metal pipes and all that stuff,

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these old wooden water derricks would draw up

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the water from the ground.

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[birds chirping]

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This is called the Big Springs.

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It's the biggest of the three springs

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that used to well up here.

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It hasn't been since the 1960s that you'd see the water

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coming all the way from the surrounding mountain ranges

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as far as the northern reaches of the Colorado River.

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This is how the city of Las Vegas began,

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where they were able to, you know, get enough water

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to support the beginning of a city.

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The water all kind of gathers here

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and then is forced upward.

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[water trickling]

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You could actually see it bubbling.

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Had Las Vegas been barren

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and had there not been any water around,

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I sincerely doubt people ever would have settled here.

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There were natural springs that were coming up

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and it was a watering hole on the route

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of the Union Pacific Railroad.

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[train horn blaring]

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The generation before me, call it the Great Generation,

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they still remember going swimming

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in the watering hole over there.

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[children laughing]

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[Music: U.S. Army Blues - "Main Stem"]

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And then the Valley grew so fast that people

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over-pumped the groundwater basin

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and they dried up the springs.

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Those weren't the days where people understood

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that there were consequences to that kind of pumping.

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We are in an older part of Las Vegas

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where a natural spring run through it at one point.

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So, as you can tell, the majority of the vegetation

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surrounding us is a lot more green.

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But let's go try and find a well,

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so we can see what it looks like.

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The well on my property is right in the front yard.

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You can see it from the street.

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This particular home, we're gonna go on a treasure hunt

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and see if we can find it.

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It's fascinating to have a well on your property.

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It's completely different than having municipal water.

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You do not have a monthly water bill.

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And so yeah, here we go.

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We've got the well.

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That is your pump.

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It looks like it is a newer pump.

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What were you expecting?

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Like an old, like, wagon wheel turning?

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[laughs]

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That's it!

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Well, let's take a look around and see.

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We did walk by it earlier.

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So, this is the rest of the well.

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And then this is all of your components

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that lead to the pump.

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You can see obviously all of this area right here

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is getting watered regularly.

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So, it is staying green.

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The trees are staying green.

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The plants are doing well.

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And then, as we get to this part of the lot,

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you can see where water is not traveling to this area.

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But yeah, this is probably what this area

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looked like before it was developed.

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So, it probably just would've been trees, dirt,

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and a lot of these shrubs

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that just grow in the desert naturally.

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[gentle ambient music]

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[water trickling]

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Well, water either comes from the sky

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or it comes from the ground.

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And there's very little coming from the sky

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since we are the driest desert in the United States.

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And then 90% of the water today

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comes from the Colorado River.

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Hoover Dam, and Lake Mead.

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[water lapping]

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Hoover Dam was built to regulate the Colorado River.

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And there used to be an old saying

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that the Colorado River is too thick to drink

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and too thin to farm.

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About 23 million people depend on the Colorado River

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for water to drink, crops to grow, communities to thrive.

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The lifeblood of Las Vegas.

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When you see this water go down the river,

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it's an incredibly beautiful sight.

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If you go to the other side of the dam,

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you look at Lake Mead and it's dropped about 140 feet.

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We've been in a drought in the Colorado River Basin

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for about 17 years.

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We are quickly approaching the levels of Lake Mead,

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if they drop to 1075 or below,

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where we're going to have to deliver less water

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by law to Arizona and Nevada.

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If Las Vegas, or Southern Nevada in general,

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didn't conserve water and they were squandering

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their water supply, sorry-- when the cup's empty,

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the cup's empty.

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Look.

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Check it out.

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The top of that white line is where the water was.

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Where the white is, was all underwater.

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This is a reservoir.

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This isn't a natural lake.

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Where we're standing right now

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was completely underwater when the lake was full.

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That island houses all three intakes for Southern Nevada.

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So, 90% of Southern Nevada's water comes from tunnels

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that are in this island structure over here.

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As the lake keeps going down,

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we needed to build a third intake,

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so Southern Nevada can still physically access water.

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In the Colorado River, we know that the 20th century

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was one of the wettest centuries in the last 1200 years.

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So, we were already dealing with a situation

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where we thought we had more water than we really do.

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[machinery buzzing]

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The third intake is a two and a half mile tunnel,

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20-foot diameter tunnel underneath Lake Mead.

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And now we're pulling 100% of Las Vegas's water

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from that intake.

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What's going on right now is we're building

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the Low Lake Level Pumping Station that will literally

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give us the ability to pump water out of Lake Mead,

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even in the eventuality where the Bureau of Reclamation

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cannot release water downstream to Arizona,

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California and the country of Mexico.

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All of this is about supplying the Valley with water.

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If we imagine a big swimming pool below us,

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all of these pumps sit in that pool,

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they draw water through a tunnel that goes about 1400 feet

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that direction into the lake.

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So, literally, we can pump water

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when that construction project's completed

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until there's no water in the river.

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So, if you want to imagine the water

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coming up through a column,

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it turns up through the discharge head,

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and goes through this cone valve,

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and delivers it all the way up through the tunnel

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over to the River Mountains Water Treatment Facility.

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[water flowing]

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This is where the water enters the plant.

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This is essentially raw Lake Mead water

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and this is our first contact with it here at the plant.

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We're responsible for making sure

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this water is safe to drink.

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It's been through several cities way up in the Rockies

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and traveled down through the Colorado to us.

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So, it's kind of been through a lot

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by the time it's gotten here.

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This is the most important chemical monitoring station

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that we have because it monitors the water

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right after it comes off the filter.

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And that's essentially what we use to prove that the water

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meets drinking water standards.

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This unit right here is called the particle counter,

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actually counts every single particle in the water,

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and as you can see now, it's reading "zero."

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So, that's how clean our water is.

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And then, as it flows down through this larger pipe,

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that flows into our clear well where we store the water

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before we pump it out into the distribution system.

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From River Mountains, the water treatment facility

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we were just at, that water is delivered

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to then each of those cities or municipalities

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or water purveyors.

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6500 miles of pipeline beneath the surface of the streets

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here in the Las Vegas Valley Water District service area.

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And that infrastructure is flowing

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beneath our feet right now.

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Yeah, this water has made its way from Lake Mead,

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through this water treatment plant,

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entering into a reservoir basin.

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It's 10 million gallons worth of storage in this one basin.

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And it's just, as you can see, a concrete box.

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It is holding our 10 million gallons of water.

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It then goes to our residents

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throughout the Las Vegas Valley.

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So, if they turn on their faucet,

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they're gonna get water out of their tap.

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We don't really want the general public

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to even realize what's going on.

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You know, we actually take pride in the fact

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that people get their water

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and they just kind of take it for granted.

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[gentle instrumental music]

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[lively big band music]

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Well, in 1989, it had become readily apparent,

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here in Southern Nevada, that there were insufficient

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water resources to meet burgeoning demand.

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I mean, the competition for water resources

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had gotten so ridiculous that, at one point,

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Boulder City opened its fire hydrants and just let the water

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run down the street in order to ratchet up its allocation.

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It's the price of progress.

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A new tomorrow at the cost of yesteryear.

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But if you've got to go,

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go out with a bang.

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A send-off fitting of Las Vegas.

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By '93, '94, we were done.

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And it really was irrelevant

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who fell off the cliff first, second or third.

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I mean it was a difference of weeks, not years.

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So, when you come to that realization that your fate

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is indelibly intertwined with everyone,

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then your conversation begins to change,

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and you begin to look at a common future.

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[soft jazz music]

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Everything is arid, very little rainfall.

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And we're in a drought for how many years now?

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It's been several.

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And it's something that we all know about,

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but it's not quite a state of emergency to where

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you turn your tap on and nothing comes out.

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That's never happened.

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We're still building.

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People still have grass.

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So, in that mindset, we actually have tiered water billing.

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The more you used, the more you pay.

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Water rates keep going up.

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Maybe eventually when they get high enough, they'll stop.

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We also have a turf conversion.

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When you get money back for all the grass

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that they rip out and replace with xeriscape.

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What we would hope people do is xeriscape.

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It is a blend of drought-tolerant material,

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something that's going to thrive in Las Vegas

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on very little water.

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Over here, they've torn out the perimeter

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so it doesn't run off as much.

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So, they've kept themselves a little patch,

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different-sized aggregate around the palm trees,

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which is actually very nice.

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So, it's working.

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The vast majority of people, it's working.

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[upbeat jazz music]

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It's a par 60 executive course.

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We're on the far end of one of the golf courses.

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This is hole number seven right here

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and hole number eight right here.

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Where you see the red rock on the outside of the cart path,

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that's where we did the turf conversion.

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This used to be grass over here,

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and now it's desert landscaping.

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That sounds like a simple thing to do,

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but it's not all that easy when you start putting in

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drip valves and long runs of drip valve systems.

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I'm not sure what the exact number

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would be for saving the water, but I know this--

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today we use 49 million gallons less water

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than we did when I came here 15 years ago.

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49 million gallons a year less water.

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That's a lot of water.

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This is such a neat place to live and work.

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Without the water though, none of us would be here.

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Prettiest view of the course is right up here.

00:20:58.770 --> 00:21:00.860
There's a couple other places that are pretty, too,

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but this is the prettiest.

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Pretty world we live in, isn't it?

00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:07.500
Pretty neat place.

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We don't know how long the drought is going to continue.

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This drought could be the new normal.

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Water is the new gold.

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We treat it as such, and we need to treat it as such.

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There's a million contributing factors

00:22:54.580 --> 00:22:57.950
to what goes into a leak, so there is not necessarily

00:22:57.950 --> 00:22:59.663
an average leak versus an average--

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It's tough to tell.

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I'm gonna hook up to it, use this locator to see

00:23:12.820 --> 00:23:15.200
where the actual service line goes.

00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.000
Sometimes they run down the sidewalk and then go over there.

00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:19.850
They're not always just straight out.

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About 5% of the water that we deliver on average

00:23:24.650 --> 00:23:26.680
is lost through leaks,

00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:30.406
well below the 15% on a national average.

00:23:30.406 --> 00:23:32.806
[jackhammer pounding]

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In the past, there was only two ways

00:23:41.210 --> 00:23:42.970
to be able to determine those leaks.

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We would have to physically go in

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and dig up the street or wait until a leak surfaced

00:23:47.390 --> 00:23:49.920
and at that time it's too late.

00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:52.173
Those losses of water have already occurred.

00:23:55.330 --> 00:23:56.163
When there's a hole in the street

00:23:56.163 --> 00:23:57.220
and the water is blowing out,

00:23:57.220 --> 00:23:59.170
then we already know where the leak is.

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But my main job is to go find the leaks

00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:02.940
that aren't surfacing yet.

00:24:05.050 --> 00:24:06.700
So, there's a leak to the west of us

00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:08.910
that we're trying to identify.

00:24:08.910 --> 00:24:10.230
This is a hydrophone.

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That's the microphone that's going to be listening

00:24:11.730 --> 00:24:12.563
to the water.

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Depending on how large the leak is,

00:24:17.300 --> 00:24:19.250
it'll be how loud you're gonna hear it.

00:24:22.070 --> 00:24:23.620
A high-pressure leak is obviously louder

00:24:23.620 --> 00:24:25.320
than a low-pressure leak.

00:24:25.320 --> 00:24:27.345
This gives us an opportunity to keep an eye--

00:24:27.345 --> 00:24:28.861
or better yet, an ear--

00:24:28.861 --> 00:24:31.263
on what's going on beneath the city surfaces.

00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:36.950
Turn it on.

00:24:38.090 --> 00:24:40.420
You're gonna be able to hear it on the headphones

00:24:40.420 --> 00:24:41.720
on the right and the left.

00:24:45.410 --> 00:24:46.743
Like a low roar.

00:24:50.800 --> 00:24:53.040
And whichever side you hear it on loudest,

00:24:53.040 --> 00:24:55.390
you know the leak is gonna be leaning towards that side.

00:24:55.390 --> 00:24:56.730
But then the software's going to show us

00:24:56.730 --> 00:24:57.730
exactly where it is.

00:24:59.155 --> 00:25:00.923
That's what a leak looks like right there.

00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:03.313
Got those nice tall peaks.

00:25:04.650 --> 00:25:06.850
I know without a doubt there's a leak there.

00:25:21.765 --> 00:25:25.932
We do three a day, 10 hours a day, 40-hour week.

00:25:26.820 --> 00:25:27.943
You get into a rhythm.

00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:30.800
The way this company is set up,

00:25:30.800 --> 00:25:32.450
they've got it down to a science.

00:25:34.520 --> 00:25:35.620
They'll do a temporary patch

00:25:35.620 --> 00:25:37.070
before they leave here today.

00:25:49.247 --> 00:25:52.247
[sultry jazz music]

00:26:14.730 --> 00:26:16.150
Oh there's something visceral

00:26:16.150 --> 00:26:20.540
when it's 115 degrees outside to stand by cool water.

00:26:20.540 --> 00:26:23.290
Where else in the world can you walk from Paris to Italy

00:26:23.290 --> 00:26:26.780
by crossing the street or, you know,

00:26:26.780 --> 00:26:29.453
walk a little further and you're in Venice?

00:26:40.830 --> 00:26:42.810
The Las Vegas Strip and the water features

00:26:42.810 --> 00:26:46.240
on the Las Vegas Strip, they are everybody's favorite

00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:47.930
flogging toy, ya know?

00:26:47.930 --> 00:26:49.620
"Let's go beat up on the strip.

00:26:49.620 --> 00:26:52.310
That's where Las Vegas uses all its water."

00:26:52.310 --> 00:26:53.610
And it's a bunch of hooey.

00:26:54.510 --> 00:26:56.990
They started re-using their own water

00:26:56.990 --> 00:26:59.940
that then went into the water features.

00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:02.140
Most of their use is indoors,

00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:04.443
and everything that's indoors gets recycled.

00:27:06.090 --> 00:27:08.300
It hits the sewer system, it's captured,

00:27:08.300 --> 00:27:11.373
it's treated to an extraordinarily high level.

00:27:12.220 --> 00:27:14.490
We send it back to Lake Mead,

00:27:14.490 --> 00:27:17.540
and for every gallon of treated wastewater

00:27:17.540 --> 00:27:19.600
we put back in the Colorado River

00:27:19.600 --> 00:27:22.363
we can take an additional gallon of water out.

00:27:23.530 --> 00:27:24.683
So, it's a closed loop.

00:27:31.370 --> 00:27:36.370
What's called wastewater, raw sewage, municipal waste--

00:27:36.950 --> 00:27:39.820
those are the names that people give to the kind of water

00:27:39.820 --> 00:27:41.370
that comes into the plant here.

00:27:42.870 --> 00:27:46.050
Our system is roughly like the veins in your body.

00:27:46.050 --> 00:27:47.470
Lots of really small ones

00:27:47.470 --> 00:27:49.010
and then they feed into bigger ones

00:27:49.010 --> 00:27:51.010
and then they feed into bigger ones

00:27:51.010 --> 00:27:54.780
and then finally they feed into one giant one

00:27:54.780 --> 00:27:56.620
and you can-- I don't know if you can hear that,

00:27:56.620 --> 00:27:58.070
but you should be able to hear the water

00:27:58.070 --> 00:28:01.470
rushing underneath these plates here.

00:28:01.470 --> 00:28:03.860
So, if we're to take these concrete plates off,

00:28:03.860 --> 00:28:07.983
you'd see a giant stream of water coming into the plant.

00:28:11.450 --> 00:28:16.030
You can get a feel for how large this facility is

00:28:17.300 --> 00:28:19.150
by looking down the hallway that way.

00:28:21.080 --> 00:28:24.253
40% of the water that's used, it's used indoors,

00:28:25.140 --> 00:28:28.940
and all the water that's used indoors travels down

00:28:28.940 --> 00:28:31.347
into the sanitary sewer system and comes to this plant

00:28:31.347 --> 00:28:32.893
and is essentially reclaimed.

00:28:34.940 --> 00:28:38.600
The Super Bowl and New Year's Eve, which you might expect,

00:28:38.600 --> 00:28:40.040
we get very high flows here.

00:28:40.040 --> 00:28:42.350
In fact, some of the Super Bowls we've seen

00:28:42.350 --> 00:28:46.600
flows up to 130 million gallons a day here for that one day.

00:28:46.600 --> 00:28:49.620
So our biggest day here is the Super Bowl

00:28:49.620 --> 00:28:52.240
and then, once in a while,

00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:54.510
a super heavy rain will bring

00:28:54.510 --> 00:28:57.060
that kind of flow in here over the course of a day.

00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:00.960
Flows do go up here.

00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.210
But we still have plenty of reserve capacity.

00:29:08.731 --> 00:29:11.050
In many communities, you think of wastewater

00:29:11.050 --> 00:29:13.660
as some sort of a nuisance.

00:29:13.660 --> 00:29:15.310
You flush it down the toilet, you got rid of it.

00:29:15.310 --> 00:29:16.510
It went down the sink.

00:29:16.510 --> 00:29:18.350
It's out of sight, out of mind.

00:29:18.350 --> 00:29:20.790
And here, because our water supply

00:29:20.790 --> 00:29:24.580
is based upon how much water is returned to the lake,

00:29:24.580 --> 00:29:25.610
there's a better understanding

00:29:25.610 --> 00:29:28.280
that all those in water reclamation in the Valley

00:29:28.280 --> 00:29:30.740
are playing an essential role of cleaning that water

00:29:30.740 --> 00:29:32.890
so it's safe to go back to the environment.

00:29:32.890 --> 00:29:35.543
But it also enhances our water supply itself.

00:29:41.520 --> 00:29:43.460
At this time of day, this is roughly full

00:29:43.460 --> 00:29:47.440
of about 60 million gallons a day flow rate

00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:48.660
coming out of here.

00:29:48.660 --> 00:29:51.050
It's quite a powerful lot of water

00:29:51.050 --> 00:29:53.680
and this is our reclaimed water that we're sending back

00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:55.630
out into the Colorado River system.

00:29:55.630 --> 00:29:57.222
[water roaring]

00:30:08.600 --> 00:30:09.780
When it returns to the Wash,

00:30:09.780 --> 00:30:13.300
it's safe in that environment, contact with animal life.

00:30:13.300 --> 00:30:15.200
You know, the fish that are in the waters,

00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.720
it's safe for that contact.

00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:18.203
It is not drinking water.

00:30:27.780 --> 00:30:30.410
Downstream of here at the Wetlands Park,

00:30:30.410 --> 00:30:33.100
all the trash that flows down in the storm-water

00:30:33.100 --> 00:30:34.950
from the Valley collects right there.

00:30:36.170 --> 00:30:40.780
Plastic bags, jugs, everything you could possibly imagine

00:30:40.780 --> 00:30:43.760
that can flow down in a large storm can collect

00:30:43.760 --> 00:30:46.123
in the storm drain system of the Wash.

00:30:57.123 --> 00:30:59.790
[water flowing]

00:31:20.165 --> 00:31:22.915
[birds chirping]

00:31:33.969 --> 00:31:36.636
[water lapping]

00:31:43.702 --> 00:31:46.369
[water cascading]

00:31:50.363 --> 00:31:54.190
Water that we use indoors is water that we use over,

00:31:54.190 --> 00:31:56.253
and over, and over, and over again.

00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:01.280
The outdoor water use, we only get to use that water once.

00:32:01.280 --> 00:32:04.060
Once that water waters your lawn and once that water

00:32:04.060 --> 00:32:06.870
waters your plants or waters any landscaping,

00:32:06.870 --> 00:32:09.063
we don't ever get to use that water again.

00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:13.360
All of this green that you see here is artificial turf

00:32:13.360 --> 00:32:15.033
where there was once grass.

00:32:15.890 --> 00:32:18.700
And again, we'll pay our customers $2

00:32:18.700 --> 00:32:20.950
for each of those square feet that's removed.

00:32:22.860 --> 00:32:24.950
When I was growing up here in Southern Nevada,

00:32:24.950 --> 00:32:27.060
my parents had a house on the west end of town,

00:32:27.060 --> 00:32:30.030
and we had a large lush lawn

00:32:30.030 --> 00:32:34.300
that I used to have to mow every single Saturday.

00:32:34.300 --> 00:32:38.200
But if you drive by that same house now, that grass is gone.

00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:40.290
That grass has been removed.

00:32:40.290 --> 00:32:42.550
And, again, it may not have been something

00:32:42.550 --> 00:32:45.950
that we thought of in the 70s, 80s, and 90s,

00:32:45.950 --> 00:32:48.683
but we're not in the 70s, 80s, and 90s anymore.

00:32:49.900 --> 00:32:52.350
So, it's not if you use water or when you use water,

00:32:52.350 --> 00:32:53.913
it's how you use water.

00:32:58.870 --> 00:33:02.720
There's two million residents, 40 million visitors,

00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:05.180
40 hotel resorts around the world.

00:33:05.180 --> 00:33:10.010
We have 70,000 team members, 150,000 hotel rooms

00:33:10.010 --> 00:33:14.160
on the Las Vegas Strip, Top 13 largest hotels in the world.

00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:17.520
And 7% of water in the Valley

00:33:17.520 --> 00:33:19.270
is used amongst the Strip Corridor.

00:33:21.700 --> 00:33:23.450
It's a very comprehensive approach

00:33:23.450 --> 00:33:26.763
that we have shifted to when it comes to sustainability.

00:33:29.096 --> 00:33:30.367
A question of our management team was,

00:33:30.367 --> 00:33:31.637
"Gwen are you gonna turn off the fountains

00:33:31.637 --> 00:33:33.277
now at Caesars Palace?"

00:33:33.277 --> 00:33:34.337
Are we going to turn down the lighting

00:33:34.337 --> 00:33:38.460
on our iconic buildings around the world?"

00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:40.567
And my answer to them was,

00:33:40.567 --> 00:33:42.747
"Regardless of what the customer expects,

00:33:42.747 --> 00:33:45.067
we need to take a stand on what we're going

00:33:45.067 --> 00:33:47.370
to commit to long-term."

00:33:47.370 --> 00:33:50.360
A constant renewal around conservation.

00:33:50.360 --> 00:33:55.240
In the next five years, we are on track for a 25% reduction

00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:57.963
in the water we use at Caesars Palace alone.

00:34:00.726 --> 00:34:03.143
[gentle piano and woodwind music]

00:34:12.347 --> 00:34:15.014
[water flowing]

00:34:33.430 --> 00:34:34.483
Never say never.

00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.810
Never think that something is impossible

00:34:38.810 --> 00:34:41.010
because the minute you do it's gonna happen.

00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:47.030
Right now, the lake's probably around 1078,

00:34:47.030 --> 00:34:50.220
so you've got three feet before the first shortage.

00:34:50.220 --> 00:34:51.173
That's not a lot.

00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:57.053
Tell me what next winter's gonna look like.

00:34:58.190 --> 00:35:00.750
And whether we are blessed

00:35:00.750 --> 00:35:05.750
and have a repeat of this winter, you never know.

00:35:08.630 --> 00:35:11.220
So, the states are now getting ready

00:35:11.220 --> 00:35:15.060
as if the worst is going to happen to enter into agreements

00:35:15.060 --> 00:35:18.160
amongst themselves and with Mexico

00:35:18.160 --> 00:35:22.370
to artificially prop this lake up by everybody stepping back

00:35:22.370 --> 00:35:23.920
from how much they're using.

00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:27.193
And not take as much and leave it behind in the lake.

00:35:46.750 --> 00:35:49.090
What you're seeing here at the Springs Preserve,

00:35:49.090 --> 00:35:52.210
this project became a flagship about how to teach people

00:35:52.210 --> 00:35:55.113
to live of the desert and just not in the desert.

00:35:56.470 --> 00:35:58.910
How to live in this desert appropriately

00:35:58.910 --> 00:36:00.683
and how beautiful it can be,

00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:03.723
that's what drew me to this place.

00:36:05.950 --> 00:36:09.920
There's no way this city can grow to this size, this scale,

00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:12.300
this magnitude without two things.

00:36:12.300 --> 00:36:16.623
And that's actually water and probably air conditioning.

00:36:18.190 --> 00:36:20.320
The purpose behind air conditioning

00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:21.803
is all about thermal comfort.

00:36:24.370 --> 00:36:26.320
Here at the Springs Preserve,

00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:28.428
we have standard cooling systems

00:36:28.428 --> 00:36:29.669
but we supplement them

00:36:29.669 --> 00:36:33.210
with cool towers designed by area, square footage,

00:36:33.210 --> 00:36:35.700
and height to actually supplement

00:36:35.700 --> 00:36:37.180
the cooling of the building.

00:36:37.180 --> 00:36:39.890
Hot dry air blows across the desert surface,

00:36:39.890 --> 00:36:44.340
it's caught in these fins, and those fins pressurize the air

00:36:44.340 --> 00:36:48.210
and move it over cooling damp pads just like a swamp cooler.

00:36:48.210 --> 00:36:52.140
So, this has been used in very similar conditions in towers,

00:36:52.140 --> 00:36:55.040
minaret towers in the Middle East, except they put pools

00:36:55.040 --> 00:36:57.660
of water in the bottom of them to cool temples

00:36:57.660 --> 00:37:00.010
and other living facilities in the Middle East.

00:37:03.550 --> 00:37:06.020
This is the bottom of the cool tower here.

00:37:06.020 --> 00:37:08.520
It could be implemented more and more.

00:37:08.520 --> 00:37:12.740
And it should be, especially in hot arid climates.

00:37:12.740 --> 00:37:15.950
I can tell you in our test, in August when we opened these,

00:37:15.950 --> 00:37:20.080
we dropped the temperature from 106 to 86

00:37:20.080 --> 00:37:21.713
by using these cool towers.

00:37:26.270 --> 00:37:28.980
You know, I'm afraid that we won't learn

00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:30.530
our lessons quick enough.

00:37:30.530 --> 00:37:32.130
That's my concern.

00:37:32.130 --> 00:37:35.780
For me, sustainability and being sustainable

00:37:35.780 --> 00:37:37.670
is only meeting status quo.

00:37:37.670 --> 00:37:38.770
It's the bare minimum.

00:37:40.110 --> 00:37:43.900
It's not actually rejuvenating or regenerating

00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:45.910
the environment and the ecosystems.

00:37:45.910 --> 00:37:49.000
So, if we're only sustaining to where we're at,

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:51.333
we're not doing good enough.

00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:01.800
Kind of unbelievably in the desert.

00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:04.883
This is the biggest school garden program in the country.

00:38:09.010 --> 00:38:12.750
An area like Las Vegas, I've been here 14 years

00:38:12.750 --> 00:38:16.870
and they were already doing conservation here 14 years ago.

00:38:16.870 --> 00:38:20.763
They have rebate programs on removing turf.

00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.350
Landscape is one of the biggest uses of water

00:38:24.350 --> 00:38:25.770
anywhere in the country.

00:38:25.770 --> 00:38:27.620
We put more water into our landscapes

00:38:27.620 --> 00:38:30.690
than we do for drinking and for household use.

00:38:30.690 --> 00:38:32.453
So, it's a great program.

00:38:34.430 --> 00:38:36.270
This garden that's going to be built here

00:38:36.270 --> 00:38:39.190
at Mendoza Elementary, is essentially paid for

00:38:39.190 --> 00:38:41.717
by the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

00:38:41.717 --> 00:38:45.993
$2 a square foot for removing 5,000 square feet of grass.

00:38:47.530 --> 00:38:50.630
The school is going to receive $10,000

00:38:50.630 --> 00:38:52.480
and that money is going to pay Green Our Planet

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:53.503
to build the garden.

00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:09.760
One, two, three, four, five.

00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:11.780
We build raised brick beds

00:39:11.780 --> 00:39:14.270
and we use drip irrigation with drips

00:39:14.270 --> 00:39:16.363
coming out twice a day.

00:39:17.550 --> 00:39:20.780
For every 5,000 square feet of grass that we remove,

00:39:20.780 --> 00:39:25.050
the school saves 250,000 gallons of water every year.

00:39:25.050 --> 00:39:26.090
That's every school.

00:39:26.090 --> 00:39:27.573
Pick some black beans.

00:39:28.700 --> 00:39:31.300
If you multiply that by 126 schools--

00:39:31.300 --> 00:39:33.530
because this is our 126th school garden--

00:39:33.530 --> 00:39:36.230
that means we are saving the Clark County School District

00:39:36.230 --> 00:39:38.940
30 million gallons of water a year.

00:39:38.940 --> 00:39:41.730
We're going to talk about learning plants

00:39:41.730 --> 00:39:45.620
and doing a lot of stuff about plants.

00:39:45.620 --> 00:39:48.640
We can grow plants super big

00:39:48.640 --> 00:39:51.047
that we can't even pick up, you know?

00:39:52.141 --> 00:39:54.724
[teacher and students chatting]

00:39:59.700 --> 00:40:04.560
We have been saving a lot of water, a lot of money,

00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:08.580
and we've been able to put in the educational programming

00:40:08.580 --> 00:40:13.130
that benefits all of our students and our school community--

00:40:13.130 --> 00:40:14.680
and the community in Las Vegas,

00:40:14.680 --> 00:40:18.680
because we're doing a farmer's market tomorrow at Zappos.

00:40:18.680 --> 00:40:19.650
Hi, John.

00:40:19.650 --> 00:40:20.690
Good morning.
How's it going?

00:40:20.690 --> 00:40:21.523
How are you?

00:40:21.523 --> 00:40:22.670
It's going well, yeah, we're making this place

00:40:22.670 --> 00:40:23.510
look pretty nice.

00:40:23.510 --> 00:40:24.790
They have all these awesome...

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So, it's market day!

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Yay!

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We're super excited.

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The kids are super excited.

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They finished harvesting this morning,

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finished packaging everything, and now we're here.

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Whoa!

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This is cool!
Whoa.

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Whoa!

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Whoa, wow!

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Wow!

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We sell 40, we'll break even on this.

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That's the goal.

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And how much are your sweet potatoes?

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Two
No, they're a dollar.

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Dollar.
Okay and I'll take

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one of those, too.

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$3.
You want that one?

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Okay, we'll take that one.

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We have a special.

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If you get a big beet, you get a little beet for free.

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And all of this, you can eat this on the way

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while you're shopping.

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And of course, prickly pears, three for a dollar,

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and they give you a lot of health benefits.

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Thank you for shopping.

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Oh.

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One person every 20 second is dying

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of not having access to clean water, so that touched me.

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Since then I realized that water is at the center

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of every big challenge this planet has had to face.

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One drop is in three different continents.

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We're in Latin America, Africa,

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and then we're in India as well in three different regions.

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Guy Laliberte, who's the founder of One Drop Foundation,

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is also the founder of Cirque du Soleil.

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So, it's in our DNA to find creative, innovative ways

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to raise money.

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And this is one of them.

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Guy Laliberte is a big poker player, so we decided to use

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one of his passions to raise money.

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And a percentage of that goes for One Drop.

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Yes! Yes!
[crowd cheering]

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Fedor has to move all in.

00:43:49.130 --> 00:43:50.330
He does say "All in."

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He's going to get a snap call from Bonomo.

00:43:53.040 --> 00:43:53.873
Yep.

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And here we go!

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Another brace at the river card.

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Wow!
Queen!

00:43:59.789 --> 00:44:03.150
And in this battle royale of poker heavyweights,

00:44:03.150 --> 00:44:05.043
Justin Bonomo is king!

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Before we end this, I want to say something

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about the charity.

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One Drop does amazing, amazing work.

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I will certainly be giving a big chunk

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of my winnings to the charity.

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The tournament itself raised $2 million for the charity.

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Please just think about giving whatever you can

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to OneDrop.org.

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You know water conservation is what's really

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gonna matter in the 21st century.

00:44:30.460 --> 00:44:31.780
One of the most important things.

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And for Vegas, we live in the Mojave.

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We need water,

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it's a life source.

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Super important.

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No need to speculate what it is,

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just know that it's imperative for each individual,

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you know, heart, soul, body, and action, to get involved.

00:44:47.991 --> 00:44:48.825
Know what I mean?

00:44:58.728 --> 00:45:02.103
[gentle ambient music]

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The harshness of this desert really is obvious

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when you look at the landscape around Lake Mead.

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I mean, this is a time of year where you see

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a little bit of softness.

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Other than that, it's pretty harsh

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and pretty rugged terrain.

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The world in a world of climate change is one

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about processes, because in order to be as nimble

00:47:22.050 --> 00:47:24.840
and as flexible as you possibly can,

00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.063
you can't make decisions that last 50 years.

00:47:29.810 --> 00:47:32.850
You make decisions that last a much shorter time

00:47:32.850 --> 00:47:35.470
but you have a process of constant review,

00:47:35.470 --> 00:47:40.470
reevaluation and the ability to either tweak it slightly

00:47:40.740 --> 00:47:43.423
or make major course corrections along the way.

00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:48.610
There are no villains and no heroes.

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Everyone has equal responsibility

00:47:53.527 --> 00:47:54.785
in creating the problem,

00:47:54.785 --> 00:47:56.700
and everyone has equal opportunity

00:47:56.700 --> 00:47:57.950
in resolving the problem.

00:48:00.824 --> 00:48:02.313
One.

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Two.

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Three.

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[crowd cheering]

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What we want is people to see what a difference

00:48:09.890 --> 00:48:12.110
it would be that before you actually take a drink

00:48:12.110 --> 00:48:14.010
that you actually have to work for it.

00:48:15.680 --> 00:48:17.660
I'm telling them how difficult it is to get water

00:48:17.660 --> 00:48:19.376
in some parts of the world.

00:48:19.376 --> 00:48:21.790
So, let them learn that.

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The desert always called back to me.

00:48:48.230 --> 00:48:50.800
Maybe I can blame it on growing up here,

00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:54.710
but what you thought was desolation is actually teeming

00:48:54.710 --> 00:48:58.563
with life in a very uncomplicated way.

00:49:07.610 --> 00:49:09.390
Walking for water.

00:49:09.390 --> 00:49:11.490
Every drop counts. Every drop counts.

00:49:20.650 --> 00:49:23.240
Efficient use of what we have and efficient use

00:49:23.240 --> 00:49:26.850
of all of our resources, water and other resources,

00:49:26.850 --> 00:49:29.650
should become a way of life, not just in Las Vegas

00:49:29.650 --> 00:49:31.320
and not just in Southern Nevada.

00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:33.320
We can all always do more.

00:49:39.257 --> 00:49:41.055
Woo!

00:49:41.055 --> 00:49:43.658
Finally made it.

00:50:21.183 --> 00:50:23.766
[upbeat instrumental music]

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There's one student who's always in the front,

00:50:30.963 --> 00:50:32.796
always in the lead....

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And frankly, any grass that we have in the valley

00:50:47.970 --> 00:50:50.640
that only gets walked on when somebody mows it,

00:50:50.640 --> 00:50:52.490
that needs to go away.

00:50:52.490 --> 00:50:54.290
Las Vegas has been so amazing.

00:50:54.290 --> 00:50:55.730
It's reinvented itself.

00:50:55.730 --> 00:50:57.610
It constantly reinvents itself.

00:50:57.610 --> 00:51:00.740
I mean you just cannot stand still in this town.

00:51:00.740 --> 00:51:02.073
Woo!

00:51:04.473 --> 00:51:05.850
I think Las Vegas will solve

00:51:05.850 --> 00:51:07.673
its water problem every time.

00:51:08.902 --> 00:51:12.255
And if you can do it here, you can do it anywhere.

00:51:15.662 --> 00:51:18.033
[crowd cheering]

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[Music: Jacob Bloomfield-Misrach - "Hotel Brand"]

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♪ Can you feel it ♪

00:52:15.135 --> 00:52:18.999
♪ There's a change coming over me ♪

00:52:18.999 --> 00:52:22.829
♪ Can you see ♪

00:52:22.829 --> 00:52:26.812
♪ There's a change coming over me ♪

00:52:26.812 --> 00:52:30.547
♪ I know ♪

00:52:30.547 --> 00:52:34.328
♪ There's a change coming over me ♪

00:52:34.328 --> 00:52:38.411
♪ Can you see ♪

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[sultry jazz music]

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[gentle instrumental music]