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Sewers-the cold, dark tunnels underground where our disgusting waste constantly flows through. Not exactly the ideal place to live... right? Wrong.
Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps. A place where tourists long to go, infamous for gambling. But beneath many of the casinos and hotels lies over 350 miles of flood channels of sewers, inhabited by over 1,000 people living in the sewers. Looting through casinos looking for forgotten money, or taking furniture and other valuables from garbage, this is how these people maintain their living in the sewers.
Most of the community living in the sewers have nice furnishing. They have beds and kitchens stocked with food, everything that they need to survive, basically. The community also works together as if they were a big family, to make sure each person is provided with food and the necessities that they need. Despite the fact that these people are living in sewers, the community is sustainable. But with everything that seems like its working well, there are downfalls.
Flooding, drug addictions, disease. Just a few of the many problems these people face in the sewer community. Many of the people living down there have addictions to heavy drugs such as heroin and cocaine, which prevent these people from leaving their homes in the sewers. In an interview with The Sun news, one man stated that he is unable to leave his home in the sewers because of drug possession charges from 2 years before he moved in the tunnels. Many people with addictions who are unable to maintain a lifestyle due to drug addictions move down to the sewers to escape.
When it rains, where does all of the water flow into? You guessed it, sewers. Many times the people living in the sewers get flooded, destroying many of their possessions. In one flood over 20 people drowned due to flooding. Alsoin many of the sewers they are contaminated with diseases from the sewer water that they are living in and highly venemous spiders infesting the sewers in which these people live.
When I think about people living in sewers and stealing money and valuables to maintain a living, I think about communities before the 1900's and how people lived during the great depression. This isn't something that should still be happening in 2013. Society is improving in some ways, but in other ways such as certain lifestyles people maintain, it hasn't at all. It's a broken in reality.
Las Vegas, the city that never sleeps. A place where tourists long to go, infamous for gambling. But beneath many of the casinos and hotels lies over 350 miles of flood channels of sewers, inhabited by over 1,000 people living in the sewers. Looting through casinos looking for forgotten money, or taking furniture and other valuables from garbage, this is how these people maintain their living in the sewers.
Most of the community living in the sewers have nice furnishing. They have beds and kitchens stocked with food, everything that they need to survive, basically. The community also works together as if they were a big family, to make sure each person is provided with food and the necessities that they need. Despite the fact that these people are living in sewers, the community is sustainable. But with everything that seems like its working well, there are downfalls.
Flooding, drug addictions, disease. Just a few of the many problems these people face in the sewer community. Many of the people living down there have addictions to heavy drugs such as heroin and cocaine, which prevent these people from leaving their homes in the sewers. In an interview with The Sun news, one man stated that he is unable to leave his home in the sewers because of drug possession charges from 2 years before he moved in the tunnels. Many people with addictions who are unable to maintain a lifestyle due to drug addictions move down to the sewers to escape.
When it rains, where does all of the water flow into? You guessed it, sewers. Many times the people living in the sewers get flooded, destroying many of their possessions. In one flood over 20 people drowned due to flooding. Alsoin many of the sewers they are contaminated with diseases from the sewer water that they are living in and highly venemous spiders infesting the sewers in which these people live.
When I think about people living in sewers and stealing money and valuables to maintain a living, I think about communities before the 1900's and how people lived during the great depression. This isn't something that should still be happening in 2013. Society is improving in some ways, but in other ways such as certain lifestyles people maintain, it hasn't at all. It's a broken in reality.