Fake hair and real stories. Where i come from a lot of women like me you have fake hair sometimes a hairstyle takes up to 2 days thats a lot of time that needs to be filled so people theres a long talk about whats happening in their lives i became a journalist to be a storyteller and i always want to find those real authentic stories from everyday people who have something to share. With others im a fan of the salon i know good quality hair when i see ads and a good story when i hear it my name is Elizabeth Shaw and i work at steve allen. At one point it was going to be that cape town would be the 1st city in the worlds Run Out Of Water. We had a one in 400 year drop off to 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 that we think i prefer to be with it with it when i can usually rise the flooded city is a problem and national please help National Kind with some excuse the. Waters been a weapon and without any question it got between the really African National congress and the democratic launch. We had to take Emergency Action and that action included 2 things just for when tayshaun the most especially did Morning Managers reducing to my. I. Mean theres no order the children going to thing but money you must make a way you must always make believe you can tell when the government could or would or to some people dont want to do much to see why you can find the birth. That you want to. Capetown Mitchells Plain 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. Say one of the many. Every saturday must judical 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 areas. And. You know that. It is a small houses have Running Water and recently installed water meters either that or. Again you see this is the new a new order device now the older ones worth it plays with this new wealth they dont kick it theres no unique inches on your property before they put it in beijing. If you. Dont do what they want to do thats about cities
was. Orderly devices doesnt work. It doesnt work because now there we. Installed. It always problems with the water always problem and i dont think. 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 im. With you but. Ours is the same amount of work that they give out People Company to the other one it is theyve got pools theyve got servants theyve got a huge homes that needs to be marked windows me to be clean they go jog and then they need to come Shower Company through that i dont believe but i think that we
are getting at the end of the state of. According to the United Nations around 4000000000 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 to doesnt 15. 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 north 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. In the game skinny we know it didnt 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 riots. And the economic breakdown of the region as water levels continue to sink local authorities felt they had to act. When we asked the National Government to the clinic tended to sauce the area and when they were really slow when doing it i used my local policy as the mayor to declare. That. For years hydrology experts have warned of 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 i dont think that we have. As many. Restriction. Often. Actions because in my period of of being within. Weve had to just tighten the restrictions in response to any dropping of damnable rules. 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 line up at public tap stations. For some enterprising locals the crisis was a Business Opportunity the socalled printers offer Water Delivery to households. 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 carry 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. I mean that at that point in time. Is probably the most impactful way. Bring attention to the need that Everyone Needs to reduce their consumption then 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 ville 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 a. Very big. Star thats a 36. 00 inch out plan. To keep their municipal water usage down the
tropic family collects the runoff from the shower. So we dont brace for and. Put it so we dont use new Drinking Water its true. But the wealthy can afford to buy bottled Drinking Water which helps them stay under the published 50 leader limit. So basically this is the bottom of chairs become the Storage Space for all words and. We have about 200 bottles of was images were used for cooking and drinking while there were. Thats missing from 2 to get a little of that from from the gallons to yeah but it is its not that its quite a bit already. But if you dont have to acknowledge was in the family. Just to become more aware of exactly how much water we are actually using. Cooking now we use the point of what engine can we use bottled water. You know when we pull the Water Bottles for the kids to take to school. Full 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 needed especially in the townships. Here around 70 percent of people are unemployed with no social welfare support. Must doriss friend the single mother getting by with children is hard enough and recently her problems have been compounded by excessive water bills. I walked up all that is to be 0. 75 so i dont understand why is it that people have seen these polls and the poll that they are giving us its way too high for our people to pay and its not only bible theres a lot of other people who has. To pull this 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 like you only control you have usually private people very for you know squeezing profit people to usually a solution but because youre 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 Drought Check so we are punishing you for saving. In the townships the higher water bills are often due to leaks in the aging pipes systems. This is a Water Management device thats been leaking this peoples water has been. For months now and the set down given the time out to fix it so this is all water thats been that im in no way as you can see thats from that i mean away. So does what the Management Device of the waste more water than what it saves. And if theres so what major crisis then why dont the city have kept on time out to fix this. Because residents like my feet i cant pay their bills the city reprogrammed the water meters to cap supply at 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 also for me twice in the world in fact. Couldnt explain to me why because my water was fulfilled and i had to ask my neighbor to. Get me some water sort of like him. 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 people are going to fight a war and im the one that will be coming to me and. I dont want that because i will in no way in what is your right. How can people in communities fight
a war when its your constitutional and oh. My but they save the certainly from a running out of war definitely. The people. By changing their relationship with. Using them. That is how we survive. But people in cape town say theyre tired of struggling and paying for the politicians mistakes. We have but its all of us. I no longer use my dishwasher. And i wear my clothes. So i dont change my clothes as often i must be honest or not im im tired of the city in cape town pushing the mantra of
a 50 to life and this being the new normal i dont want to live the way i am now carrying. The owner of the so long likelihood and that of his 50 employees under threat. Of businesses everything to me i dont have a fallback didnt have. A plan b. Running out of water would spiritually mean that we would have to shut shop so its not a question to get this right were wonderful city were down to. 60 leaders profession and we can be proud of it without realizing what thats done to business i can tell you Companies Rock no busy relocating a guy saying listen if this is the future of the city we came out on the street. 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 its contributed to cape towns water crisis how mistakes may have played a role but i think the real problem was the National Treasury into the Department Of Water if it is youre not getting any more money. And they didnt have the money because hes at home a lot of us have been squandered. The entire world to support a black Economic Empowerment in south africa and yes it is necessary to find a risk that you shouldnt for the sins of the past but poor 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 high and with a lot of corruption is the. 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 2900. The information i have is that in 20. 2013 it was a meeting held and that meeting was held in the bottom and i have a source in the meat of their government in charge 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 the low 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 the sit back but ides so i depute of time in the bottom one rules at a decision was made to simply witness water and they decided at that point in time that they going to turn water into a tour in into the weapon to teach them to teach they did the d. N. A. Listen to particularly those 22 women. And one of the political games at the cost of ordinary citizens after zumiez 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 it that is a formalistic approach to ducks and speaks to what im just it is situational you know when you emphasize a known good one is a bit over this that one is nice and bedroom is local thats where your problem was is no no no thats exactly what we must we must clear this side of the mentality in
terms of the city we would one government. With true serious as one government response. 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 310 pretty sent a nation plan some 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 all of this financial the new Financial Year and the drilling into aquifers are continuing and already generating some water. These new investments and Water Management have to be paid for
under zuma corrupt Officials PlunderedState Coffers now keep tony and have to foot the bill but they feel they arent being given a say in policy making. When the edge of a government at the at the local level and the bunch of it will be clear this is a crisis strongly push for. This to become a disaster. Under the conditions of a disaster the normal procedures of checks and balances are in moved citizens but as a patient in these Decision Making is removed so that now where you would have on an application for Desalination Plant for example would go through 7 checks and balances bay so theres a lot of the Decision Making both ways and comment. And i havent they say this
because theres a drought because they indicated disaster those rights of 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 arid 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. A minute very short notice we got a message that the mayor is coming to visit a Drilling Side so 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 one political religious in place but we had heard that when a buyer wants to take a picture of Something Like it happen so we have to ask a