the one under scaping from all the pressure of being single. and now it's time for global ideas this week we had to south africa a nation that's been suffering one of the worst droughts in its history twenty seventeen was the driest year on record for the area around cape town what can people do to cope under such merciless conditions. this reservoir supplies cape town with most of its water. but after four years of drought there's very little of it left the t.v. has cleft dam is only ten percent full. these trees were once fully submerged. louis staff it is director of water funds that nature conservancy south africa as a local she's acutely aware of the water shortage in the region.