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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) by JoeMerchant on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:32PM
The elephant is in the room because the limp-dick white hunter had to prove his manliness by shooting the elephant with a high powered rifle and then stuffed it's head and mount it on the wall. If the "competent" white rulers hadn't come to play colonial wanna-be royals, the elephant wouldn't be in the room at all.
As I recall, before the recent bullycide, there was only one color of people in SA who might be called wealthy, and they aren't the ones who lived there for hundreds of years. So, those immigrants who were later bullycided "knew what was good for the dumb-bunnies" and made everything better with rule-by-terror, but the new immigrants coming to other places are the ones mucking up everything?
Rants and rages against people based on arbitrary prejudicial lumpings by race, color, religion, or country of birth, are simply avoiding the real issues at hand. Kleptocrats are a real problem everywhere, and no group has a particular advantage over another in that area - except, perhaps, that kleptocrats do tend to be at least somewhat wealthy before they elevate themselves into power so they can grab more of what they already have enough of.
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