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had way lower than average rainfall so we haven t been getting the winter rain that we need to fill our dams so that we can irrigate the orchards and vineyards and everything through the summer, so now we ve become even more dependent on underground water. as i listen to you, i m thinking this sounds like a nightmare scenario. you ve got a long term water shortage problem, which is being massively exacerbated by this immediate power problem. we only had this level of load shedding from about january, february, so we have managed to survive this season, but if this happens next year, where we have another dry winter and we have stage six load shedding, which is where we are 11 hours a day out, i don t know how we re going to do it, honestly. here s why irrigation matters so much. the local clanwilliam dam is atjust 16% of full capacity. climate change is hitting the western cape particularly hard. unreliable power could make farming here impossible. according to anne paterson, robert s

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