One point it was going to be the cape town would be the 1st city in the world to run out of water. We had a one in 400 year drought a very rare occurrence so this drought came in an unexpected way and we were not prepared for it certainly not its extremity. Every time theyre worse than carp authority or they would get what they want to not compete go to raise the flag and say theres a problem of national please help National Kind with some excuse the. Water has been a weapon without any question of drought between the Ruling African National congress and the Democratic Alliance. We have to take in motion see action and that action included 2 things for which patients at most especially demoing management reducing them. Move. The ladies know what get the children going to game but mommy we must make a way you must always make a way you can tell when the government could or would go over what a sick it will want over and lets go see a week in fine with. The one taking. The a. Cape town mitchells plane as one of the many impoverished townships around the south african city. Its plagued by high unemployment and crime but in the past few years the most urgent issue has been the water shortage. And every saturday a cold and her youngest daughter go from door to door selling their baked goods to hear the concerns of their neighbors and customers this is one of the better off variants. Is really just a small houses have Running Water and recently installed water meters either that or. Can you see. The new a new order device. Replaced with this new when they dont check. On your property before they put it if they just put it in. Or not they dont know what they want to do thats about the things that. And i. Dont need to devices that can work it doesnt work because now. We have this what they need this. Is always problems with always problems and i dont. Think its been. The persistent drought over the past several years created panic. The residents of mitchells plane feared the city authorities would turn off their taps 1st ive. Told you that. Cost is the same amount of work that they give out People Company to the other one p. D. S. Theyve got pools theyve got servants theyve got a huge homes that needs to be marked windows need to be clean they go jog and then they need to come shower computor that i dont believe but i think that we are putting at the end of this little. According to the United Nations around 4000000000. 00 people worldwide experience severe water scarcity cape town look to be the 1st major city to run out of water due to Climate Change water levels in the reservoirs that supply 99 percent of the areas water sank after the drought began in 2015. First of all there is no doubt that we are in a climate disrupting period and these last 3 and a half years of below average well below average rainfall suggests that theres something much more dramatic happening to our weather systems then anywhere near the norm and weve got to look to Climate Change as one of those factors that is driving that with the variability. Facing a looming humanitarian disaster city officials scramble to limit the damage. The game skinny when it didnt of rain and then dam levels just started dropping dropping. And you almost feel hopeless now you city peaked at many times i cannot allow a well run into that after what. The 4000000 residents were acutely threatened to refeed years of impending epidemics of the riots. And the economic breakdown of the region as water levels continue to sink local authorities felt they had to act. We mean we as the National Government to the clinic a tended to sauce the area and when they were very slow when doing it i used my local power since the mayor to declare cape town a disaster. For years hydrology experts had warned that the cape town urgently needed to find backup water reserves but now it was too late the citys Crisis Management team decided it would have to turn off the taps. And so in a period of about a year being in the sport but i dont think that we have ever implemented as many. Restrictions on often. Actions because in my period of of being with and. Weve had to just heighten the restrictions in response to the dropping of damnable those. Residents were restricted to 50 liters of water per day in europe by comparison people use an average of 30 leaders a day just to flush the toilet in cape town people without access to enough water to line up at public tap stations. For some enterprising locals the crisis was a Business Opportunity the socalled printers offer water delivery to households whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa this was a dry run for daisy the ominous day when the city would turn off the municipal taps residents without personal access to water through wells or bore holes would get their daily allotments like this. Never did i think that one day of my a good day that i have to trade he what. The. Critics say that if officials had taken the threat of Climate Change seriously and found new water sources early on cape town Swimming Pools would not be empty but imposing strict limits was not enough the city took more drastic measures and published household usage online on a city water map. The lighter green dots indicate higher usage the city also set up a call center where citizens can report restriction offenses. Weve done naming and shaming types of. Things with a listen. And we believe that at that point in time that is probably the most impactful way. Bring attention to the need that Everyone Needs to reduce their consumption and that we have insights to how much using. The fear of public scrutiny had an effect water usage in cape town dropped from 1200000000. 00 to just 500000000 liters per day. Homes in durban fill an affluent and mainly white suburb of cape town are also listed people here dont want to be exposed as water wasters at least not on. This. Stuff thats the 2nd shout clear. To keep their municipal water usage down the tropic family collects the runoff from the shower. Use it so i dont brace for and then. Theres. New clean Drinking Water to josh levs. But the wealthy can afford to buy bottled Drinking Water which helps them stay under the published 50 leader limit. So basically this is often too much evidence become the Storage Space for our. Mission we had about 200 bottles. Or so which is were to use for cooking and drinking. It was harder. To get a little of it from from the gallons to yeah but it was its not that its quite a bit already. If you want time. In the family. Just to become more aware of exactly how much water we are actually using. Cooking now we use the bottle of water drinking we use bottled water. You know when we pour the Water Bottles for their kids to take to school who we fall didnt want to. Cape town is a relatively wealthy city a popular Tourist Destination which produces nearly 10 percent of south africas g. D. P. Concerns are growing that if the city cant guarantee its water supply the tourists will stay away and investors will leave putting a damper on the flourishing economy. And that would kill the jobs that are desperately needing to things since so i dont understand why is it that people in these polls and that poll that they are giving us its way too high for all people to play and its not only bible has a lot of other people has called for. Paradoxically the higher bills are due in part to keep efforts to save water reduced usage meant reduced revenues a shortfall of the equivalent of hundreds of millions of euros so the city imposed higher punitive tariffs. Only control you have usually. People very for you know squeezing profit people to use listen leash but because you doing that now you revenue stream to the city suddenly suddenly is drastically reduced and therefore you have to say well we force you decide when its good to save but our revenues are not destroyed so we have to live in a special drug check so well keep punishing you for saving. In the townships to higher water bills are often due to leaks in the aging pipe systems. This is a Water Management device that has been leaking this peoples water has been leaking for months now and the set down didnt even come out to fix that so this is all water thats been that i mean away as you can see thats from that i mean away. So does what the management devices waste more water than what it seems will and if theres so what major crisis of water then why dont the city have kept on time out to fix this. Because residents like my feeder cant pay their bills the city reprogrammed the water meters to cap supply of 350 liters per day but this does not take into account the fact that sometimes there are more than 10 People Living in a single household. The other day my son asked me why you see in the world. Could you explain to me why it was my birthday and i have to ask my neighbor to look at me some sort of like in the river. And the city devised a further step to throttle water use asking people to pay for water in advance. The. People is going to die on the site. And one day dont be. Mean to me only i dont wear it because i will in the. Right. How. When its your constitutional. Right but they didnt save the city from a running out of water. The the people of. Change their relationship and you see. That is how we. Put people in cape town say theyre tired of struggling and paying for the politicians mistakes. We have but its all of us. I know its my dishwasher. And i wear my clothes. So i dont change my clothes as often i must be honest you know im im tired of the city and pushing the men for almost 50 to life and this being the new normal i dont want to live the way i am now caring that. The owner of the salon ceases livelihood and that of his 50 employees under. My business is everything to me i dont have a fallback scenario i didnt have. A plan b. Running out of water would theoretically mean that we would have to shut shop so its not a question to get at this and we have a wonderful city we have down to. 60 leaders per person per day and we can be proud of that without realizing what thats done to business i can tell you of companies right now betto busy relocating ny saying listen if this is the future of the city we can business to. Its been 25 years since the election of Nelson Mandela and his African National congress the a. N. C. Party and apartheid a new era began in south africa with a new constitution that guarantees citizens the right to sufficient water and places the responsibility for realizing that right in the hands of the state. Some people believe that has contributed to cape towns water crisis. Politics may have played a role but i think the real problem was that National Treasury said to the department of water thing is youre not getting any more money. And they didnt have the money because theres a whole lot of us have been squandered. The entire world has supported black Economic Empowerment in south africa and yes it is necessary to find a rich to chew shouldnt for the sins of the past but what people also have to recognize is that like a demonic empowerment has just become a fig leaf to cover corruption it sounds moral it sounds good people dont want to be against it but it really is just a number 11 hind which a lot of corruption is he really cape town and the western Cape Province are controlled by the Democratic Alliance or da party while the National Government is in the hands of the a. N. C. For years the da and the women who occupied top posts in cape town were an irritant to president jacob zuma who stepped down in the face of corruption allegations in 2018. The information that i have is that in 2213 there was a meeting held and that meeting was held in the bottom Mineral Resources and i have a source in that meeting that they gave me the engine of this meeting and in that meeting the discussion watch. How do we deal with helen zille or how do we deal with with with additional because patricia below was blowing the whistle on the arms deal and helen zille or had just been been appointed the premier and she was making a huge noise about this about but i guess so that bit of time in the bottom and rolls of a decision was made to simply witness water and they decided at that point in time that theyre going to turn water into a tour in into a weapon to teach their teacher did the da listen to particularly those 2 to one. Political games at the cost of ordinary citizens after zoomers resignation the cabinet was reshuffled. The new minister of water and sanitation facing the media. What do you tell people who blame the National Government for the crisis in cape town. No douglas formalistic you know if theres a formalistic approach that sort of speaks to what im just it is situational you know when you emphasize a no no one is a bit over this that one is most of the other in this thats where your problem lies is no no no thats exactly what we must we must keep this side of the mentality in terms of the we would one government with true serious as one government 2 or 3 years. Whether the new National Government will solve cape towns problems has yet to be seen the city has had to take on the task of finding new sources of water something which ought to be financed by the National Government. So the 3 temperately sanitation pond so basically complete weve got to be providing water into the system or working on a way to reuse the city and that will. See a yield being put into the system towards the end of this financial the new Financial Year and the drilling into aquifers are continuing and already generating some water. These new investments in Water Management have to be paid for under zuma corrupt officials plundered state coffers now keep tony and have to foot the bill but they feel they arent being given a say in policy making. A government i think at the local level in the prevention it will declare this is a crisis in strongly pushed for. This to become a disaster. Under the conditions of a disaster the known pro se says of checks and balances adding moved citizens but as a patient in these Decision Making is removed so that now where you would have been an application for desalination plants for example would go through certain checks and balances we citizens are you part of the Decision Making process and comment and and have it they say around this because of the drought because it indicated disaster those rights at taking away. The 3 small desalination plants were set up hastily for a lot of money critics say the use of huge amounts of energy but only provide 2 percent of daily water demand. Climate changes altering global rainfall patterns higher latitudes in the tropics are expected to get wet or moderate latitudes and already eric regions will get drier cape towns municipal officials have recognised that surface water will no longer be sufficient for the growing city. Now theyre asking scientists whose warnings went unheeded for years to come up with quick solutions. And been a very short notice we got a message that the mayor is coming to visit snake around him so i said she would really like to see drilling in frequently she would like to see water coming out of the ground at that stage we had no contact with religious in place but we had learned that when a buyer wants to take a picture of something youll like it happen so we have to ask a grilling company to take a little bit of risk to take a grilling regatta because they work through that they go for all and by that of the may arrive we took a picture and there was water coming out of. The messy phone as the Table Mountain group has a number of manmade reservoirs but these dams are just a drop in the bucket. Hundreds of meters down below the masses of gray sandstone are billions of cubic meters of Crystal Clear water and natural groundwater aquifers these fossil water sources are being explored as a possible solution to keep towns Drinking Water problems. To borehole here is already 850 meters deep and theres still no trace of groundwater. But ya know thats a navy earth can you know. Like i said earlier if you dont get water in a ball your heads on the talking a lot so i will say. This is like i said exploration so you learn and you told me through it and the only you only going to find out whats on the ground when you drill. The problem is that the deep ground water is not replenished rapidly if too much is taken out the depleted water table will sink with potentially serious consequences for plant and animal life. Any activity like this isnt in fact i think we have to be honest about that but its grab water. If you are developing a water resource theres going to be an impact but quite clearly we dont have a choice in terms of building resilience all the things of. Ground water is an important source but i have an autograph is a crude drop in terms of its size. Cape town is not alone with these problems half of the earths population is already grappling with water shortages cities from sao paulo to los angeles make headlines when they nearly run out of water and the scarcity cant necessarily be attributed to Climate Change wasteful water use is another factor. While the scientists hunt for solutions affluent keep tony and her providing for themselves to keep water in their Swimming Pool but avoid being identified as wasters online and the tribe its paid for the installation of their own borehole. This is basically. Goes on to 127 meters and so far we getting good water formats weve had water tested in a local lad weve just actually received the results now weve