LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas casino magnate is proposing an extravagant water paradise in drought-stricken Nevada.
The Paradise Park development proposal unveiled by Wynn Resorts in April is anchored by a 38-acre man-made lake where an 18-hole golf course now sits in Las Vegas.
But skepticism about the project's environmental claims includes questions about evaporation, drought and the unethical or unnatural use of water.
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