"No outside food or beverage" is a standard stipulation for any convention event. There was no "water ban" and people should please stop throwing that phrase around because it's a ridiculous assumption.



People brought in outside bottles of water, there were water stations as well. AC is not something that the staff has direct control over as the hotel provides the venue.



Nobody enforces the "beverage" ban unless alcohol is involved and even then nobody is going to give a shit you are drinking water especially during a heatwave.



Please stop jumping to conclusions.



once again I will point to the video of the deceased, where people are carrying around outside water bottles.



