The torrential rain at the weekend has broken Nelson Mandela Bay’s “meteorological drought” but, with its biggest dam, the Impofu, still sitting below 20%, the city is not yet out of the woods.
It is no longer a threat, it is about to be a lived reality for about 40% of the city. Nelson Mandela Bay is running out of water, and because consumption has not been drastically cut, and catchment dams have not benefited from much of the rains, the city has reached crisis level.