'The water crisis is so bad in CT People don’t even say “Damn”' - Barry Hilton

chicane42 (25)in #southafrica • 7 years ago

Want to see something scary? These are the water stations for day 0 where people will have to queue for water in Cape Town. One of these stations are said to supply around 20k people and there will be 200 of these dotted around the city which will be manned by the army. Shits going to get hectic when d-day rolls around on April 22nd.

Dam's are at 15% due to a major drought, borehole water is being highly regulated and when the taps are turned off there is a lot of bad speculation on what will happen to our sewerage works. Unlike Canada we don't have composting toilets (yet) and I doubt many could afford them.

France and Germany have both offered to help but the leaders sitting on the other side of the country where there is no drought have said no thanks to the offer. Not going to lie but it looks very bad, if you are planning on coming to Cape Town as a visitor or tourist then please reconsider... we honestly don't have the infrastructure.

#capetown #water #globalwarming

7 years ago in #southafrica by chicane42 (25)

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readallaboutit (59) 7 years ago

Hi chicane42 no shortage of rain here in Ireland. As an ex Capetonian I feel for you guys. You have global warming and we are entering a mini ice age. Definitely weird stuff going on. Good luck and hang in there.

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joroderick (36) 7 years ago

It feels rather surreal in some respects. Of course, it would not have been as bad if most people had actually started using less water over a year ago.

I've been using three buckets in my shower for nearly two years now. I use it for the loo. We wash our hands over the dirty dishes in the sink to reduce water consumption and then the rinse water from the dishes goes to water the food producing plants that haven't yet died. When it rains, we collect the water from the down pipes for the few plants that haven't dried up.

Too many people just carried on wasting water as if this was all a joke. Now they say that 'they' should have built desalination plants. Yes, 'they' should have, but it's all politics. Now, it's all a very dry affair. On a positive note ... it did rain a little bit today. Doing a rain dance for more unusual summer rain.

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readallaboutit (59) 7 years ago

Things sound bad there and looks like things are going to get a lot worse. Here we have the opposite with too much rain. I guess all you can do is take it one day at a time.

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joroderick (36) 7 years ago

I don't dwell on it. I just go about my usual long day, and every night I have an even shorter shower before bed. It's so short now that I get less buckets out of water out of it hehe.

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