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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
of western cape soil, picked, sorted, packed and shipped to supermarkets in britain. robert paterson has built this farming business up over three decades. it relies on irrigation and that means it relies on the power to pump water. basically every crop in the western cape, apart from wheat and rooibos tea, is irrigated. so the entire western cape is totally dependent on a reliable power supply, which we haven t got. the western cape is a mediterranean climate, so we have a long, hot summer period with basically no rain and then a relatively short winter when it is supposed to rain, but for the past seven years we ve
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a three hour drive from cape town is some of the best citrus farming in the world. 60 tonnes of clementines harvested from just one hectare of western cape soil. picked, sorted, packed and shipped to supermarkets in britain. robert paterson has built this farming business up over three decades. it relies on irrigation, and that means it relies on the power to pump water. basically, every crop in the western cape, apart from wheat and rooibos tea is irrigated. so, the entire western cape is totally dependent on a reliable power supply, which we haven t got. the western cape is a mediterranean climate, so, we have a long hot summer period with basically no rain, and a relatively short winter, where it is supposed to rain. but for the past seven years, we have had to wait lower than