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South Africa’s Cape Town is fast approaching "Day Zero": when
the city’s water will go dry, a global first for a major
metropolis.
For weeks, residents of South Africa's landmark city, where
tourists flock to its beaches and scale Table Mountain, have been
held up in daily long lines, collecting water. Many are stockpiling
supplies, fearing the even graver scenario that awaits.
The city is experiencing its worst drought in close to a century
and has entered its third year without reservoirs being
significantly replenished.
Originally scheduled for April 22, it was announced this week
that the ominous Day Zero has now been brought forward to April 12
if consumption does not lower for the coastal city’s nearly 4
million people.
Cape Town’s Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson said in a statement Friday
that “due to a drop in the dam levels of 1.4 percent, Day Zero has,
as of today, moved forward.”
The city's leaders are attempting to stave off the crisis,
lowering the daily allowance for residents to 50 liters from 87
liters, starting February 1. However, even the existing rationing
has proved less than successful. Mayor Patricia de Lille accused 60
percent of residents of “callously” consuming more than 87 liters
despite repeated warnings of the dire consequences.
“It is atrocious that a majority of people do not seem to care
and are sending all of us headlong towards Day Zero," the mayor
said.
Highlighting the dire scenario, she added, “We have reached a
point of no return."
Helen Zille, a premier of the Western Cape province and a former
mayor of Cape Town—who will be directing the disaster management
response upon Day Zero if it does arrive—warned that “every
Capetonian needs to take this very seriously.”
http://www.newsweek.com/day-zero-drought-cape-town-792036
