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Ok and your industry today is cape town facing a future without water maybe eighteen twenty eighteen is being called a zero south africas second largest city where take a look at the debate around the root of the crisis and how cape town is planning for the near future as always were live on you tube and bringing in your comments on twitter and facebook where today show pitch came from roll runback writes cape town is about to become the first city on earth to run out of water why is nobody covering this so role we looked into your pitch and found a fascinating story that we thought the rest of the International Community should be aware of by me thank you so much now south africa is experiencing a major drought twenty seventeen was the driest year in decades and the third successive year of poor rainfall dams have gone on replenished underground aquifers are tapped out and springs and bore holes are running dry climatologists have pointed to Climate Change as a possible factor a future projections show that a shift towards a drier climate but other activists say the water crisis is political they blame poor cooperation and coordination between the African National congress and the ruling party and the local provincial government of the western cape run by the Democratic Alliance calls by the Mayors Office to the citys more than four million residents to cut water use to less than eighty seven leaders per person have gone unheeded and fines have been flouted water. Has already been shut down for several hours a day in areas outside the city center but what does eighty seven leaders of water usage actually look like. Goodness now on the phone we have a Deputy Director general all strategic at mergers and projects at the department of water sanitation. Of the federation for a sustainable environment so a nicholson is a spokeswoman at the office of cape town patricia de lowell and. Is research at the Environmental Monitoring group good to have you with us everybody so lets start with our community who are experiencing this firsthand many of them this is a personal story of mary saul she says we shower with buckets and use the water to flush the toilet we wash last our cars clothes ourselves she goes out to say you brush your teeth with a glass no Running Water at all and shes not the only one we also got a comment in the form of a video this is from Arista Calvert shes a resident of cape town heidi and discounted from killed events in cape town beginning to get on so that would a crisis has been really bad we have gone so far as to use buckets and. Flashing on toilets using the game we do from a box and its. Not what you know he as often as we should. All so hes been giving that. To a point where i hope it doesnt come and we are actually full of that. Tara and shes praying for a flood here in cape town can you relate to either of those experiences. Yes absolutely i mean our households are full of buckets of water theres a bad smell that hangs about because you know the drainage systems are used to having a lot of water flushing through and you know if youre thinking about what are you hardly flushing the toilet at all and so yeah it it really feels quite desperate if you have children theyre going to be days about bastin youre washing your clothes luckless often and there was actually recently a very great tragedy in a home and kept on going to toddler drowned in one of buckets of water that was standing and covered in the bathroom so its very very pretty isnt in our lives yes so from the mess office im just going to remind people because we did that little video about how much the required usage of water should be if you could get it down to the level you wanted it to be and have a look here on this graphic here three toilet flushes a day im sure people do a lot more than that when did you start to have to change your lifestyle in order to manage the water shortage in cape town and surrounding area. Well we certainly had a campaign in fact the city of cape town implemented a label to work to distinctions in january twenty sixth seen already so we are almost two years into the stiction as we are now at the four five b. And soon on the first of january will be going to level six water restrictions and so i think its only in twenty five for the general public much more in the past year last year we still saw if we look at our usage our collective usage you know a lot of people werent doing as much but what has been a phenomenal feat and were already nearly so thankful to capetonians we are so grateful for the effects is that before january twenty sixth and our collective consumption in cape town was one point one billion liters of water per day we are now using in the region of six hundred million liters of water per day so it shows you that the water savings having thousand to five people are doing so much that we have nearly a half a war to use so people have come onboard weve done everything we can as you can see the think water calculator to sort of help you implement a water budget for each person per day and thats eighty seven liters at home at work at school at gym or elsewhere and so we really see how people have in fact we also become as much as if its a bit difficult for some to adapt to the new norm or as we call it as water scarcity. I you know life doesnt have to be that badly impacted for example i personally have limited doing laundry to two loads a week thats what it was to live over has to wait for the next week we do the showers of listening to minutes as ministers sit in others weve got so many buckets in our shop showers collecting that water to flash i use sort of thousands to make sure that the water is cleaned. That i use from my pockets and so a lot of people have come on board they are shooting proudly shooting in fact how theyve managed to domestically the cons. And there have been a minuscule lot of balls now as well head toward this mass amount of of sixteen that. And that are brought down from about forty to and so it shows that we have to do is to a show in need of our saving water but the i thing about had to lead to a moment or to go ahead by at least fifteen to post x. To organize in fact twenty three but youd be in Civil Society organizations and nonprofit organizations at a staked off that department you couldnt send all but we. Spec the governments and often institutional paralysis with a partner or couldnt stand it and live by it or swell guy when its been foreseen that. The way stick. In fact that course the big dick dick in terms of the National Water resource directed to in south africa we have found out that the park we could or couldnt send if the ocean has to open its back it with one point five billion billion and one point five billion and. The at the. Bank one point nine billion dollars and s. F. Are so off theres overspending the honorable minister for that and send it announces. To us a good job just like our distinct and yes go ahead mike i understand that sentence that there will be no that out could be in the twenty seventeen twenty. Run. For sixty such as sky. And constant two x. If specially in the euro i have here i let me just share this with trying to get in here yet tweet it out lack of skills to manage water supply systems this is what shes shes saying that your department is not skilled enough to cope with this drought crisis the cape town and surrounding area are actually suffering from right now. I disagree with the contingent that maria has put across the i think we need to have a look at the drop in context of the impacts are that weve had over the last few years as a result of of a lower than average rainfall and if i could put that into context the average rainfall for the rest of the cape was since city of cape town is situated is normally eight hundred thirteen millimeters for the last three years weve had sixty seven percent of average rainfall so if you have a look at the state of there is a quiz over a three year period weve had declining reasonable levels because of a lack of rainfall weve also had to contend with innovative temperatures but from the departments side really manage six reasonable is that supply the city of cape town and weve had restrictions in place for the last two years in order to manage the available water now this is a normal management practice in a. Everett country like south africa we build our reserves was to be able to see us through from the mid season to the dry season and currently we are experiencing a three year very dry period which is very similar to the drop that we experienced in the area nine hundred seventy one through two nine hundred seventy three and i think with the restrictions that we put in fed ex and. That will happen i think i go ahead. And look. At the restrict i think i just want to just how do i have a patent got. So absolutely this is a very very serious to think you know that climatologist but you see tina pointed out how its the likelihood of twenty seventeen being so dry after twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen being so dry it was extremely improbable and and and it was a one and one thousand year drought and yet weve known for a long time that time required greater and alternative sources of supply. And i think what we have in our country is a kind of a failure and i want to govern and so you know part of whats going on and disagree with the occupants of walter and sanitation report shows that that had liberal posts in the department have remained vacant for a very long time has been a high turnover theres a high level of vacancy at a Senior Leadership level and so thats a failure of leadership and what we needed in a struct was the city of cape town and the National Department really working together in a really Good Relationship and in a very transparent way for isis it does and we need to understand the decisions that are being made because they have a long term impact so ted and i in turn i hear what youre doing there and i want to interject here because youre saying theres a failure of leadership and what that means when it trickles down im hearing from people online is that no one is doing anything about this at that local level so this is one person whos traveling and cape town right now black physicist writes in im currently in cape town according to this mornings paper people are not changing their water habits at all and she sent us a picture of that from the cape town times zero zero threatens earlier than thought another person sent us a video comet and what she thinks authorities should be doing to get the word out this is a project this is what she told us. This is a sense that local municipalities differently need to do more to sensitize communities as to the desperate need to save water not all uses on social media and they need to do much more to create awareness amongst those who are not in social media on a daily basis so that we save more water so as our is the word getting out there and how can you get people to change their habits for sure so we definitely theme of the word has gotten our weekly look at the fact that rick come down from one point one billion meters to advance extended our time to currently and we havent been able to get to is to get to five hundred million meters of collective but they are we are going about it we are the yes we on social media we are in the newspapers all of the media we are in communities every day executive mayors out in Community Think aging with all sorts of businesses with it Small Businesses large corporates we have ahead and throughout this year specially theyve been defied i just want to come to stars i was asking something though because im watching as somebody who knows cape town well i know south africa well how long does it take you to get tell me and to change their water usage happens there is zero on a lot of information and that a lot of campaigns are reallocation im really curious about how does it take. Yes it has and i got an idea that im going to update the automated hold on high tide when when we got to out. Of the city in the evening though they will and the people of the ne thought that this is not the windows that we are accustomed to at all in in cape cod you know cape gun is used to quite well me i understand that but when i go im funny that you know how long does it take when youre telling people to save water and is that after washing less of a duck i mean that housing doesnt talk gappy offered up but i tell you how do i talk could i come in there i love that we are going to give you an example of the experience we have in cause it in the telling which is also in an extended drought and from the time when we put in measures to reduce water demond and restrictions that took us eighteen months to realize our talkers and thats largely as a result of the time it takes for communities and uses to actually realize the seriousness of the drought and i think that the city of kept on have done very well in terms of where they on at the moment the the in terms of the Water Conservation and among targets the city of cape town were targeting to get down to eight hundred because each is a day during the drought we have to try and get them done to target a five hundred meter teaches it and currently they have been hovering around six hundred. Which is pretty good in terms of the time that weve had to how much we want those using should i travel i think being i measure my water every day i mean hopping im not in cape town yet but i still i still have a spec i own a johannesburg area that my water consumption on and on a monthly basis is run about twenty kilometers. And i just i mean you can i just know this and i agree and sometimes that is so and i want to bring it us in and mariette ill give this to you because you were mentioning what it takes there trevor and one of the obstacles to that though is what this person brings up very sad we were put on three hundred fifty eight leaders per day with twenty People Living on the premises and thats not cool water consumption was high from a contractor mishandling the installation of the water meter and were suffering a person goes on to say weve got proof of leakage but nothing has been done for six months with all calls and Reference Number as proof of trying to solve the problem like always some this apology disregards our claims marriotts how much is infrastructure and leakage a problem in all of this i wish to focus on. If b. P. Could do support we seek to and then just knock out in effect the inforce meant of noncompliance with our national will because they see some back not just of want to eat but also of quantity stuff i think. Its pretty good by a guy who should now bother going on and on and then you get tried just now youve got your end of reality at so i always knew how that would go into jet travel type of moment i am a handy marketing. Guy means that can be expensive for the from think of suit to hide inside one is used to guy who. Will get because shipping are going to get enforcement and then i also to. Stack Tickets Department reported and send it that encrypted and he constantly static or going to see what the stick him on to supply their situation at been seen it been foreseen that twelve come out of mt my understanding and then the situation should be foreseen onset i had the and if you are said to have a go ahead. I think what more realtors successfully done we shifted you to from cape town to johannesburg and i thought that the discussion this evening was to focus on cape town in the city of cape town we are not experiencing. Quality problems and not having to dilute water because of quality problems what we having to do in the city of cape town is many Jobs AvailableWater Resources and we need to get the community used to work with us and i think i would about the just go in cape town so when you want to be nonmanagement and the justice angle so that previous tweet that was speaking about these water meets that is that are installed to restrict peoples water to three fifty liters a day which is eighty seven it is a person or fought for about four people people poor people in cape town have had to live with both restricting devices for years now prior to the drought that is being used its installed and peoples households who cannot afford to pay for water and any this year have have wealthy households being asked to reduce their water so in cape town winds up towards full water demand management what its actually doing is restricting poor peoples water first and what we are seeing in this people in creditor who are trying to grow their own food as a result of the water restrictions that means Water Management devices if you gardens are dying and they do not have enough water in their homes and already and even earlier this year while that was happening you know people in wealthy suburbs were still topping up a Swimming Pool sesame actually initiated this to add the us who are watching us and following online how many days of water does cape town have the left coat dont see a zed a hundred and says he five day say sol at this count but also i want to show you what what happens what happens when you get. Zero this is what the cape town authorities put together so people all ready and away what might happen. But we need to consider what will happen if our water runs out and we reach zero on this day the majority of taps throughout the city will be turned or weve identified water Collection Sites to cross the city where youll have to queue for your daily allocation of Drinking Water this plan will be ready with teams equipment and security on standby but if we Work Together we can avoid this plan being rolled up to ensure that you your Family Friends and community only use the daily allocated amount per person per day wherever you are. Yet not everyone is convinced this is a comment we just got on you tube copstick says even if everyone uses only fifty liters per day were still going to run out another person also not so this is a comment we got from abby and abby wants to know what the differences between wealthy communities and those who are lower income do you see a difference in how they are affected. Well to be honest what we find unfortunately are often a lot of comments which are disturbing to say the least and that people on the one hand say you arent doing enough in in your community and on the other hand you have people criticizing the city saying be phoning to townships as locations using any other word to hide a side of what i need to call them there so why are you doing in the locations where people are wasting water what you find in our poorer communities is that many people in fact you have got five families and sometimes more using one standby they are not fortunate to have city for half the rooms two bathrooms or have five cats in the household so weve had in forstmann weve had campaigns where and when that starves as part of that water demand many conservation plan that you have referred to earlier where weve gone out into all areas weve employed community plumbers to be kicked in the b. P. Infrastructure in our border communities but when it comes to the wealthy it is and it isnt it is of obviously the sponsibility to detect and keeping leads and they would charge for water the other day yes we did have a Water ManagementDevices Installed just as part of the indigent Relief Program which was based on affordability the end of the we had that they have issued in terms of the water bylaw which the in that are allowed the cities that act of what and sanitation to be in go in and install exits of users which weve done to have a spoke about use water bowl earlier which are going to have a five member could it was twenty eight thousand liters that is in johannesburg in cape town where im sitting im using four thousand liters per month to actually hamley so people can do more there was a president in pinelands just two weeks ago which is sort of a wealthy suburb is a wealthy suburb so i just got my water bottle of sixteen that and thirty thousand liters for the month and thats the people we went to our house to install Water Management advice in Prime Minister and this man admitted he has four people in this house all using eighteen thousand to twenty three thousand liters. In the past i dont mind if we agree that Water Management devices should be installed in those higher excessive use of holes in wealthy suburbs that should have been happening a long time ago actually but you know in poorer households where its a matter of people not being able to pay their bill and theyve been installed in households where there are many more than four people using you know for one meter and this gas is probably hes with lisa and so im is where we are with this conversation were right at the end of this conversation i have to say thank you to tower and yet trevor says such a big die lemme see you in cape town and surrounding areas thank you very much for joining us on the stream today and to our community in cape town south africa keep us posted on developments there will leave you with some ways that some residents are working to save water until next time well see online. 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