is specialized in drone drones and in pilot flying systems they already have a partnership going on with over so boeing now getting into this area was pilotless flight systems and we can expect that a lot more money will now flow into that area yet scored in new york thank you. cape town in south africa has for months been in the grip of what some call the worst drought in over a century authorities are trying to make people more aware about water saving no carwashes pools remain empty showers need to be shorter less frequent and the water is to be reused. in cape town tourists are having to save water as well at this hotel shower water is collected in buckets. as is the dirty water from washing machines faced with drought hotels in cape town are trying to be practical soapy
drought the previous year. cape town plans to invest almost twenty five million euros over the next two years to improve its work to pipelines which still cause a lot of water to be lost but they say loan will not be enough. for some more analysis let s bring in philip the veteran drabness burke is a correspondent for the mail on the garden newspapers philip this drought has been going on for months so how are people coping with the constant shortage of water. well not securely well ok so it s years struggling and suffering significantly not only on the personal level we see trouble in the baby factory sick too it seems trouble in the agricultural sector and of course the drought also extends over the larger parts of the country into the eastern cape which is quite dependent on agriculture into the northern cape which is quite thin that s an agriculture and we have not found the ways to cope with that just like it or not what s taken amik
water for the plants is better than no water at all but with two and a half million tourists visiting cape town every year hotels are also the largest water consumers in the city and the current water scarcity is hitting the poorest the most. is the local every time they cut the water off i m shocked they don t even tell me before they do it what can i do i need water for the children to cook and wash. the region is experiencing the worst drought in more than a century. the rainy season came but with little relief the water was not enough to replenish the dams and it s a worrying weather pattern that looks set to continue. even in twenty fourteen the dams in cape town were only seventy three percent full and the water volume has been decreasing since then this year the dams were only twenty percent full and at the end of the rainy season the dams were only slightly more full than during the