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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.
Cause and Effect | How Cape Town averted ‘Day Zero’: A lesson for Delhi
Town’s experience and the decisions of its administrators could hold significant lessons for Delhi, where the past few weeks of summer have triggered an acute water ...
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Water crisis creates risk to India’s credit strength: Moody’s report
Strong economic growth, coupled with rapid industrialization and urbanization, are reducing the availability of water in the world’s most populous country, Moody’s analysts ...
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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.
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.
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...
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 The city’s outdated water infrastructure has long struggled...
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,...
Mar 22, 2023 · Between 2015 and 2018, Cape Town endured a one-in-400 year drought which took the city of around 4.6 million residents to the brink of “day zero,” a point when Cape Town would run out of...
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...
This story map dives into many aspects of the Cape Town water crisis - including its political, economic, hydrological, and social impacts.
Mar 30, 2022 · 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...
