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Cape Town, home to Table Mountain, African penguins, sunshine and sea, is a world-renowned tourist destination. But it could also become famous for being the first major city in the world to run out of water.
Most recent projections suggest that its water could run out as early as March. The crisis has been caused by three years of very low rainfall, coupled with increasing consumption by a growing population.
The local government is racing to address the situation, with desalination plants to make sea water drinkable, groundwater collection projects, and water recycling programmes.
Meanwhile Cape Town's four million residents are being urged to conserve water and use no more than 87 litres (19 gallons) a day. Car washing and filling up swimming pools has been banned. And the visiting Indian cricket team were told to limit their post-match showers to two minutes.
Such water-related problems are not confined to Cape Town, of course.
Nearly 850 million people globally lack access to safe drinking water, says the World Health Organisation, and droughts are increasing.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 13 2018, @06:16PM (1 child)
Here in California they tell us constantly that we're in a drought and we have to do the right thing and use less water and accept skyrocketing water bills, while monstrous new housing developments are continuing to spring up all over the place.
Drought, my fucking ass. I'll believe it when California secedes from the union and gets its water supply cut off by the other states. What is more likely, though, is that in such a scenario California will have its own civil war with L.A. and San Francisco against everybody else, and we will squish those sniveling wimpy city scum like the roaches they are.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday January 13 2018, @11:25PM
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