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"Day Zero" - Cape Town Drought

Biff Jerky

Created on November 27, 2023

a brief research on the drastic measure that had to be taken for Cape Town as they suffered a horrible drought

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Cape Town 2018 was experiencing one of the worst droughts and has only recently broken out of it

Climate Change

Cape Town Drought

Similar experience

Impact

What's being done

Surrounding region

Global Impact

Resources

Global Impact

From what I was able to gather. Due to this water shortage,"Day Zero" as it is refered to as, has caused an economic loss of 400 million USD and has costed people tens of thousands of Jobs according to the high societal and economic impact Cape Town has.

$400 million

Surrounding Regions

The bordering city of Stellenbosch has taken measures in helping Cape Town and the Western Cape in aiding the preservation of water. The City has contributed to giving alternate ways to reduce water usage and such methods are as follow: -Two large purification plants have been purchased to support campus water systems -Lenetus Fields have been irrigated until lawns are establish -borehole water is only permitted for pools and hockey fields -Ertjieskloof and Welgevallen, two dams, have newly augmented quotas

What is being done?

Drastic measures were put in place to regain water levels to what is needed. Mandated short showers, flushing when it is only needed, and preventing watering for gardening have been common measures to limit the use of water due to the severe lack thereof.

Impact

from 2013 2018, Cape Town was faced with one of the worst droughts in it's history. The drought was so bad the City was at the point of running out of water. The cause of the drought was a lack of rainfall for 3 straight years. Due to the lack of water, citizens were heavily limited to how much water could be used(7 gallons a day). Cape Town is the first city in the world to ever run out of drinking water.

Links to the sources

Ihttps://www.sun.ac.za/english/water-crisis https://www.brookings.edu/articles/cape-town-lessons-from-managing-water-scarcity/ https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2009144117

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