Narrator to sustain their growing community with its limited supply, las vegas learned to be extremely efficient. Mulroy this is a desert, and it has its own beauty, but you have to get beyond what youre used to. As long as people recognize theyre moving to the desert and give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30 of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. Las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. Were using less water today than we used five years ago, despite over 300,000 new residents. I think its a Pretty Amazing examp
Its water usage by about 30 . And thats hugely important in terms of the amount of infrastructure that communitys going to require. Narrator las vegas is one of the fastgrowing areas in the country. Its a relatively new city under constant construction. But because its in the arid mojave desert, the challenge of las vegas is supply. Woman all the growth and everything thats occurred in Southern Nevada has been with Colorado River water. Without it, the west as you know it today couldnt exist. Narrator to sustain their growing community with its limited supply, las vegas learned to be extremely efficient. Mulroy this is a desert, and it has its own beauty, but you have to get beyond what youre used to. As long as people recognize theyre moving to the desert and give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a
Shout out to the entire city family for their role, Mohammed Nuru and folks at department of public works had a role, lindsay hirsch. applause with all due respect to dpw and everybody else who is here, the hardest working staff in government is rec and park. Gk, construction manager, mary hobson, project manager. [cheering and applauding] director of capital planning, don. Our great operations staff, zach taylor, judy auberry who is here, and everyone else who has contributed to this incredible project. So, at rec and park, were encoloneling people to get out and play. Thats our tag line, get ready, 1, 2, 3. Get out and play. We say that because of the importance of keeping our families active and healthy. This is a real serious issue. According to the center for disease control, Childhood Obesity has more than doubled in our children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. In 2010 more than onethird of our children were overweight or obese. It is important that we get our ki
But i know theyll have to fix the water and sewer infrastructure. Woman the city had chronic sewage overflows into the chattahoochee and its tributaries. Fecal coliform bacteria levels were in the millions of colonies per hundred milliliter, which was a significant Public Health threat. And this had been occurring for decades. But neither the federal epa nor the epd back in the 90s were willing to take action under the clean water act to make the city fix its plumbing. So in 1994, we started upper chattahoochee river keeper. We filed a clean water act lawsuit. In 1997, we won. And so for the past decade, the city has embarked on a program to clean up the river. Now, with 1,800 miles of sewer system, three sewage plants and combined sewer overflows, it took a number of years to figure out what would be the solution. We are facing a crisis in infrastructure. Bethea a huge change came about when mayor Shirley Franklin became the mayor of atlanta. Were having to choose how to spend our mon
Just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of San Franciscos our community to the meridian gallery has a 20year history of supporting visual arts. Experimental music concert, and also readings. Give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. And lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] meridians stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. It gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. It is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. You want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. I felt like at meridian, it could do some good. We did not even talk about price until the day before the show. Of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. But that was not t