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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: 2, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 13 2018, @06:54PM (2 children)
DAYUMN! They need some gun control, don't they?
GASP! They DO have gun control! Well, why isn't it working? Why, why WHY does gun control always fail? Capetown is like Detroit, or Chicago, or any other liberal US city! SHOCKING! I'M SHOCKED, I tell you!
http://ewn.co.za/2015/03/10/South-African-gun-laws-back-in-the-spotlight [ewn.co.za]
Just ask any European, he'll tell you that Capetown must be a shithole. Europeans don't kill each other like those nasty Africans, or Americans.
As an aside:
Plinking. I grew up with a .22 rifle. Any given weekend, I could be found down by the railroad tracks and creek, shooting at whatever. After joining the Navy, I asked a Mexican buddy if he wanted to go plinking. He says, "What's plinking?" I tell him we can walk along and shoot cans. He says, "What kind of cans?" I tell him, "AfriCANS, Puerto RiCANS, MexiCANS, any kind of CANS we can find!" He grins, and says, "What about AmeriCANS?" I laugh, and tell him sure, but they aren't worth anything, because they are EVERYWHERE!
Manuel turned out to be a pretty good shot, considering he didn't grow up with a rifle!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jelizondo on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:23PM (1 child)
That was a good joke. Sorry you got downmodded but sometimes SN is like that.
You can own and carry a gun in SA. The main difference is that you must get a permit and getting the permit entails a “competency test” (i.e. you know how to handle a weapon safely), having no Police record and getting all of your personal information recorded, including fingerprints along with details about the authorized weapon.
In my opinion, a sane approach to letting citizens own weapons as opposed to “gun shows” in the U.S. where any lunatic can buy a weapon and then wreck havoc in the neighborhood.
A bit over half (55%) of the murders are stabbing or blunt-object lessions and mostly is black-on-black on the towns.
Now, an interesting thing I’ve seen only in SA. You can hand your handgun to the airline at check-in on domestic flights and they will promptly return it to you after landing. It doesn’t have to be on your checked luggage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @06:46PM
"a sane approach to letting citizens own weapons"
learn the difference between a right and a privilege.