The City of Cape Town says it’s concerned that water consumption over the past week has spiked by 5%. Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson says dam levels have also declined by 0.5% due to high temperatures and evaporation. The average water levels of reservoirs supplying the Metropole stand at 21%. Neilson[…]
Social activist groups Save Cape Town, Stop the City of Cape Town and Dear Cape Town, took to the streets of the CBD to protest their disdain with the city’s proposed water tariff increase. These organisations have asked the Public Protector to investigate the city council’s proposed 27% water price[…]
With South Africa in the midst of its worst drought in over a century, Africa Muslims Agency (AMA) has launched Quench SA, an effort to bring water relief to thousands of South Africans who are facing water shortages. On Tuesday, 13 March, the Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs[…]
Civic organisation and residents are planning to take to the streets of Cape Town to protest against the City of Cape Town’s proposal for a 26.9 percent in municipal tariffs, announced in the Mayor’s budget last week. The protest will be headed by Save Cape Town on 13th April. Save[…]
Capetonians who are hard-pressed by the prospect of paying higher municipal tariffs must air their views through the formal public participation process. So says one civic activist in light of the City of Cape Town’s announcement last week that consumers could face an increase of 26.9% in water and sanitation[…]
Cape Town collective water use has gone up again to an average of 565Ml a day after the City quietly moved Day Zero to 2019. “Unfortunately, usage has increased by 54 million litres per day from last week’s record low of 511 million litres per day,” said Deputy Mayor Ian[…]
Cape Town may not see Day Zero – at least in 2018. That’s according to Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane, addressing media on Thursday afternoon on the current status of the drought in the Western Cape. “Each week, the water consumption steadily dropped, and we were able to push back[…]
As Day Zero edges closer, people are stockpiling water from shops and springs. The idea of designated collection points is an uncomfortable thought, and so many people are looking at alternative emergency sources such as rainwater tanks, pools and boreholes. These sources make a lot of sense for toilet flushing[…]
Organisers of the popular Shaykh Yusuf Kramat Festival in Faure have made a “difficult” decision to cancel this year’s event due to the current drought. More than 5 000 Cape Muslims attend the religious and cultural event every year, to pay their respects to Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar and to[…]
South African non-profit organisation Operation SA, met with the Department of Water and Sanitation Department where they came to an agreement that collecting water and transporting the bottled water to the Western Cape from other province was not the best solution. Operation SA Yusuf co-founder Abramjee says that they have[…]
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