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Las Vegas's Waste Problem

Studies reveal that during large festivals illicit substance use increases. This article discusses substance use and substance use resources

Huge music festivals or large gatherings of people looking for a party often bring lots of illicit drug use to a particular place, including Las Vegas when it hosts a festival like the Electric Daisy Carnival or sporting events like the NFL Draft. Testing of sewage water for drugs has shown this to be true.

That’s right: the process of biological elimination, urination, or defecation, causes some substances to end up in sewers and sometimes in our waterways. During festivals where increased drug consumption occurs, the level of drugs detectible in the wastewater increases.

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A multi-day water testing series on the Las Vegas Wash showed that drugs spiked in the wastewater during and after the Electric Daisy Carnival music festival. On the Monday after the festival, MDMA levels in the Wash were 300 times higher than the level on the day the festival began.

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