According to the Daily Mail there are 1,000 people living in makeshift homes in flooded tunnels underneath Las Vegas.
They have been there for five years, fashioning a shower out of a water cooler, hanging paintings on the walls and collating a library from abandoned books.
Their possessions, however, are carefully placed in plastic crates to stop them getting soaked by the noxious water pooling on the floor.
photo by Austin Hargrave