What’s the SCP number for this abomination
I want to get off Mr Bone’s Wild Ride.
If it weren’t for the millions of gallons of water that I’m sure are wasted in the middle of the desert, this honestly looks like so much fun.
I doubt much of the water is wasted, though a tiny bit of spillage and a bit more evaporation is expected. The rest is pumped back to the top, as it would be hard to source fresh water fast enough to just waste it.
I wouldn’t say that the water loss is tiny. I’m assuming average temperatures between 90-100° F when operating and low humidity (<30%) and I found a source saying that the city of pheonix estimated that an Olympic swimming pool loses 2500-5000 gallons of water per month. That has mostly to do with surface area but I’m assuming they have at least one of those pools in the park, maybe multiple. Could be up to 15,000 gallons/month just for pools alone.
Then we talk about the water slides which, if you’ve ever been on a water slide, you know that they waste water. Water leaking from the slides may be gallons an hour and the agitation of the water will speed up evaporation. I’d say each slide loses somewhere around 10-20 gallons an hour as a guess. You multiply that by 15 slides and you’re getting 150 gallons per hour, 12,000 gallons a day.
So not to put it lightly but this one park could be losing over a million gallons of water a year. Easily. And in a desert that’s nothing to scoff at.
I did all my math before researching but I found an article from the guardian that uses very similar numbers. Mine are higher but this park is also bigger.
I was under the impression that the bulk of water consumption for modern water parks was from flushing toilets bathroom facilities, so I’ll have to defer to your assumption of 20 gallons per hour for a slide. If a slide can accommodate 20 kids per hour, that means 1 gallon per kid, which seems pretty reasonable.
There is some concept art, so maybe that idea got scrapped for some reason?
It bothers me that the name of the park encourages you to pronounce either “Aqua” or “Quatar” incorrectly
Looks like kowloon walled water park