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Cape Town: What It's Like to Live Through Water Crisis - Time

We are now limited to using 13 gallons of water per person per day. That's enough for a 90-second shower, a half-gallon of drinking water, a sinkful to hand- ...

Cape Town water crisis - Wikipedia

The fall in water usage led the City to postpone its estimate for "Day Zero", and strong rains starting in June 2018 led to dam levels recovering. ... In ...

Cape Town: Lessons from managing water scarcity

Cape Town is proving that we have learned the right lessons from the drought crisis by converting water savings into a culture, with a proactive bid to use less ...

Why Cape Town Is Running Out of Water, and the Cities That Are Next

The path to Cape Town's crisis is both typical—and not. Much like southern California, South Africa is arid, but Cape Town's most recognizable land mass, Table ...

Nature-Based Solutions Are Protecting Cape Town's Water Supply

In early 2018, the name Cape Town became synonymous with water scarcity after a three-year drought drew the city dangerously close to “Day ...

Cape Town water crisis | WaterAid America

Government intervention was the real game-changer. The regional government of Cape Town (who are responsible for the city's water provision) set up an ...

Cape Town almost ran out of water. Here's how it averted the crisis

By changing a city's habits, along with the welcome return of some rain, Cape Town managed to avert the worst of the water scarcity crisis.

Lessons learned from the Cape Town water crisis | Frontier Economics

Two key lessons to take away from the Cape Town crisis are the need to create a robust water supply network and the need to better integrate climate change ...

Day Zero: Where next? - National Geographic

In 2018, Cape Town's 'Day Zero' became the focus for South Africa's water crisis, but while its circumstances were certainly unique, the causes ...

Cape Town: Lessons from the Drought - ISPI

The drought provided the Western Cape with an opportunity to start thinking about water and managing it differently at both the household and ...

Taps running dry have become part of daily life in South Africa's ...

While drought can hurt the city's reservoirs, the dams are currently full, authorities say. But climate change is making things worse in another ...

How improving institutions can help solve South Africa's water crisis

Highly vulnerable to climate change, South Africa has been experiencing severe water shortages since 2015. The water-stressed country receives ...

Cape Town's 'Day Zero' drought a sign of things to come

A multi-year drought depleted its reservoirs, impacting millions of people. That kind of extreme event may become the norm, researchers now warn.

How Cape Town Went From Water Crisis to Overflowing Dams in ...

Between 2015 and 2018, a decline in rainfall resulted in Cape Town's worst droughts on record. These droughts saw the city on the brink of Day ...

Avoiding a water crisis: how Capetown avoided 'Day Zero'

The city was able to avoid Day Zero – but only through a combination of aggressive water conservation and efficiency campaigns, and increased rainfall in 2018.

Cape Town water taps running dry | Africa Renewal

Cape Town's water crisis has affected not only the political dynamics of the city but also, in various ways, its economy and sanitation, with effects ranging ...

Cape Town's Water Crisis: How Did It Happen? | Article | EESI

The city's water supply shortage seems to be the result of a combination of physical, social, and political factors.

Countdown to Day Zero: Cape Town's Water Crisis - YouTube

What happens when a major metropolitan area runs out of water? The 4.5 million residents of Cape Town are hoping they won't have to find out ...

Lessons from the Cape Town water crisis and the need for a ...

The crisis provided a number of useful lessons and exposed the critical need for a water system rooted in principles of resilience and a renewed technical ...

How Cape Town was saved from running out of water - The Guardian

Reusing shower water, limiting toilet flushing and night-time irrigation were among measures that saved South Africa's second city from ...