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Aug 23, 2019 · In a dry climate, with rapid urbanization and relatively high per capita water consumption, Cape Town had all the makings of a water crisis. In 2018, after three years of poor rainfall, the city announced drastic action was needed to avoid running out.
The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town.
Mar 5, 2018 · Cape Town officials are making plans to store emergency water at military installations, and say using taps to fill pools, water gardens, or wash cars is now illegal. Just this week, authorities stepped up water-theft patrols at natural springs where fights broke out, according to local press reports.
The Cape Town crisis stems from a combination of poor planning, three years of drought and spectacularly bad crisis management. The city’s outdated water infrastructure has long struggled...
Nov 10, 2021 · BBC. Cutting down trees to save a city from drought might seem like an unlikely plan, but that is exactly what the South African city of Cape Town is doing, soon after it became the first...
Mar 5, 2018 · Cape Town officials are making plans to store emergency water at military installations, and say using taps to fill pools, water gardens, or wash cars is now illegal. Just this week,...
Dec 6, 2022 · There are a multitude of reasons that the Cape Town water crisis happened and became so severe, and they can be grouped into four major categories: politics, a lengthy drought, the overuse of water, and poor water resource management.
Nov 10, 2021 · Its existential crisis was triggered by a severe and unanticipated drought that turned all the local reservoirs into dustbowls. Today, dozens of teams armed with chainsaws are seeking to protect...
The widely reported “Day Zero” crisis, wherein the city faced the real possibility of the taps being turned off, presented an acute shock and highlighted major vulnerabilities in the city’s...
Jan 24, 2018 · Panic about the looming water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa, strikes Jodie Miller unpredictably during otherwise ordinary days.
