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Reservoir at lake mead decrease at an alarming rate. but it ain't the casinos that are the culprits. in fact, vegas casinos are a model of water efficiency and conservation. main culprit? the all-american lawn. a little square of green. robert kern is water police. he patrols the vegas streets looking for evidence of water violations. >> saw some water in the gutter on both sides. this is not their day. we're in an area where there shouldn't be any watering, yet there's water here. that's what we do, we drive around looking for something like that, to give them a little educational visit. hey,...

At an alarming rate. but it ain't the casinos that are the culprits. in fact, vegas casinos are a model of water efficiency and conservation. main culprit? the all-american lawn. a little square of green. robert kern is water police. he patrols the vegas streets looking for evidence of water violations. >> saw some water in the gutter on both sides. this is not their day. we're in an area where there shouldn't be any watering, yet there's water here. that's what we do, we drive around looking for something like that, to give them a little educational visit. hey, you're not supposed to water to...

So what do you think? >> there is not one acre of preserved mojave desert in the city limits of las vegas. why would you preserve this? this desolation is not nurturing. we can't be here unless there's a lot of technology supporting our presence. and so there's a sense of the city versus nature. this is not our friend. >> you would think looking at the vast lakes, the canals, the fountains of vegas in the middle of a desert, the flush of 100,000 toilets, that the casinos and what they bring would constitute an obscene waste of water. and indeed water is an ever more desperate premium as water ...

Levels decrease at an alarming rate. but it isn't the casinos that are the culprits. in fact, vegas casinos are a model of water efficiency and conservation. main culprit? all-american lawn. a little square of green. robert kern is water police. he patrols the vegas streets looking for evidence of water violations. >> saw some water in the gutter on both sides. this is not their day. we're in an area where there shouldn't be any water, yet there's water here. that's what we do, we drive around looking for something like that, to give them a little education. hey, you're not supposed to water t...

Reservoir at lake mead decrease at an alarming rate. but it ain't the casinos that are the culprits. in fact, vegas casinos are a model of water efficiency and conservation. main culprit? the all-american lawn. a little square of green. robert kern is water police. he patrols the vegas streets looking for evidence of water violations. >> saw some water in the gutter on both sides. this is not their day. we're in an area where there shouldn't be any watering, yet there's water here. that's what we do, we drive around looking for something like that, to give them a little educational visit. hey,...