At one point it was going to be the cape town would be the 1st city in the worlds run out of water. We had a one in 400 year drop off to a very rare occurrence so this drought came in an unexpected way and we were not prepared for it certainly not its extremity. Every time the race the car before it to you or the or the what you want to know commission only right is the floodgates it is a problem of national please help National Kind with some excuse the. Waters been a weapon or without any question of got between the really African National congress and the democratic launch. We as a taking Agency Action and that action included 2 things in this open space ship of most especially the morning management reducing to all. Meeting is no order of the children going to thing but money you must make go away you must always make room you can tell when the government will go with the orders some people dont want or you must go see when you can find work there. The one taking. Cape town mitchells plane is one of the many impoverished townships around the south african city its plagued by high unemployment and crime but in the past few years the most urgent issue has been the water shortage. They want and they need. And every saturday must get a cold and her youngest daughter go from door to door selling their baked goods to hear the concerns of their neighbors and customers this is one of the better off areas. In. The e. U. You know that. It is a small houses have Running Water and recently installed water meters either that or. Again you see this is the new a new order the evades now the older ones he plays with this new wealth they dont think theres no unique inches on your property before they put the event just for. If you. Dont do what they want to do thats about the things that struck us and i. Dont need to devise this doesnt work it doesnt work because now there we want to meet this installed you know. Always problems with the water always problems and i dont. Think. The persistent drought over the past several years created panic. The residents of mitchells plane feared the city authorities would turn off their taps 1st ive. Told you but. Ours is the same amount of work that they give out people compared to the other one p. D. S. Theyve got pools theyve got servants theyve got a huge homes that needs to be marked windows me to be clean they go jog and then they need to come shower computor that i dont believe but i think that we are getting at the end of this little. According to the United Nations around 4000000000 people worldwide experienced severe water scarcity. Cape town look to be the 1st major city to run out of water due to Climate Change water levels in the reservoirs that supply 99 percent of the areas water sank after the drought began in 2050. First of all that is no doubt that we are in a climate disrupting period and these last 3 and a half years of below average well below average rainfall suggests that theres something much more dramatic happening to our with the systems then anywhere near the norm and weve got to look to Climate Change as one of those factors that is driving that with the variability. Facing a looming humanitarian disaster city officials scramble to limit the damage. And begin the when it didnt rain and then dam levels just started dropping dropping. And you almost feel hopeless now you city many times i cannot allow a well run system to that after what. The 4000000 residents were acutely threatened to refeed years of impending epidemics of the riots. And the economic breakdown of the region as water levels continue to sink local authorities felt they had to act. When we asked the National Government to dictate tended to sauce the area and when they were ready snow would do we needed i use my local policy as the mayor to take cape town. For years hydrology experts had warned that a cape town urgently needed to find backup water reserves but now it was too late the citys Crisis Management team decided it would have to turn off the taps. And so in a period of about a year being in the sport i dont think that we have. As many. Restrictions on often. Actions because in my period of of being within. Weve had to just tighten the restrictions in response to the dropping of dan navels. Residents were restricted to 50 liters of water per day in europe by comparison people use an average of 30 leaders a day just to flush the toilet in cape town people without access to enough water to line up at public tap stations. For some enterprising locals the crisis was a Business Opportunity the socalled printers offer a water delivery to households. This was a dry run for daisy the ominous day when the city would turn off the municipal taps residents without personal access to water through wells or bore holes would get their daily allotments like this. Never did i think that one day of my a good day that i have to try to do what. The. Critics say that if officials had taken the threat of Climate Change seriously and found new water sources early on cape town Swimming Pools would not be empty but imposing strict limits was not enough the city took more drastic measures and published household usage online on a city water map. The lighter green dots indicate higher usage the city also set up a call center where citizens can report restriction offenses. Weve done naming and shaming types of. Things with the recent. And we believe that at that point in time that that is probably the most impactful way. Bring attention to the need that Everyone Needs to reduce their consumption and that we have insights to how much. The fear of public scrutiny had an effect water usage in cape town dropped from 1200000000. 00 to just 500000000 liters per day. The. Homes in durban fill an affluent and mainly white suburb of cape town are also listed people here dont want to be exposed as water wasters at least not on mine. When they. Stop. The 2nd shout. To keep their municipal water usage down the tropic family collects the runoff from the shower. Using braced for and. From their shower. New clean Drinking Water. But the wealthy can afford to buy bottled Drinking Water which helps them stay under the published 50 leader limit. So basically this is awful musharraf has become the Storage Space for our Water Mission we had about 200 bottles. Was which is a use for cooking and drinking. But it was hard. To get a little of that from from the guys to yeah but it was so often quite a bit already. If you want to have. A family. Just to become more aware of exactly how much water we are actually using. Cooking now we use the point of water drinking we use bottled water. You know when we pour the Water Bottles for their kids to take to school we fall to. Cape town as a relatively wealthy city a popular Tourist Destination which produces nearly 10 percent of south africas g. D. P. Concerns are growing that if the city cant guarantee its water supply the tourists will stay away and investors will leave putting a damper on the flourishing economy. And that would kill the jobs that are desperately needed especially in the townships. Here around 70 percent of people are unemployed with no social welfare support. And. Must doriss friend feed a single mother getting by with children is hard enough and recently her problems have been compounded by excessive water bills. Theres a waterfall at the 7500. 00. 0. 93 so i dont understand why is it that people. Want to and that bowl that they are giving us its way too high for our people to play and its not only bible theres a lot of other people who has. To play paradoxically the higher bills are due in part to keep efforts to save water reduced usage meant reduced revenues a shortfall of the equivalent of hundreds of millions of euros so the city imposed higher punitive tariffs if you only control you have usually private people very for you know squeezing profit people to use listen but because youre doing that now you revenue stream to the city suddenly suddenly is drastically reduced and very for you have to say well we force you decide when its good to save but are riven usually not destroyed so we have to live in a special drop check so we are punishing you for saving. In the townships the higher water bills are often due to leaks in the aging pipe systems. Is the Water Management device that has been leaking this peoples water has been leaking for months now and the set down didnt even come out to fix it so this is all water thats been that i mean no way as you can see thats from that having a when. So does what the management device it weighs more water than what it saves. And if theres so what major crisis of water then why dont the city have kept on time out to fix this. Because residents like my feet are cant pay their bills the city reprogrammed the water meters to keep supplying a 350 liters per day but this does not take into account the fact that sometimes there are more than 10 People Living in a single household. But other than my son also known me twice in the war in fact. I couldnt explain to him why it was my work i was thinking and i have to ask my neighbor to get me some water so that i came. To. The city devised a further step to throttle water use asking people to pay for water in advance. The. People is going to die people are going to fight a war and one that dont come to me and. I dont know whether that because i will in the what the right. How can people in communities fight a war when its your constitutional that out. But they are there to save the city from a landing out of war definitely. The people of. Change there the relationship and bad using them. That is how we. Put people in cape town say theyre tired of struggling and paying for the politicians mistakes. That. We have but its all of us. I no longer use my dishwasher. And i wear my clothes a lot. So i dont change my clothes as often i must be honest or not im im tired of the city and kept on pushing the men for almost 50 beats a lot and this being the new normal i dont want to live the way i am now carrying buckets. The owner of the salon she says likelihood and that of his 50 employees under threat. Of businesses everything to me i didnt have a fallback didnt have a. Is a plan b. Running out of water would spiritually mean that we would have to shut up shop so its not a question to get a pension were wonderful city were down to. 60 leaders per person good at it and we can be proud of it without realising what gets done to business i can tell you companies right now theyre all busy relocating listen if this is the future of the city. Theres instant. Its been 25 years since the election of Nelson Mandela and his African National congress the a. N. C. Party and apartheid a new era began in south africa with a new constitution it guarantees citizens the right to sufficient water and places the responsibility for realizing that right in the hands of the state some people believe that its contributed to cape towns water crisis. How mystics may have played a role but i think the real problem was the National Treasury said to the department of Water Affairs youre not getting any more money. And they didnt have the money because you said a lot of us have been squandered. The entire world has supported black anomic empowerment in south africa and yes it is necessary to find a rich that you shouldnt for the sins of the past but poor people also have to recognize is that like a demonic empowerment has just become a fig leaf to cover corruption it sounds moral it sounds good people dont want to be against it but it really is just an umbrella behind which a lot of corruption is the. Cape town and the western Cape Province are controlled by the Democratic Alliance or da party while the National Government is in the hands of the a. N. C. For years the da and the women who occupy top posts in cape town were an irritant to president jacob zuma who stepped down in the face of corruption allegations in 2018 the information that i have is that in 20. 2013 it was a meeting held and that meeting was held in the bottom in research and i have a source in that meeting that they gave me the initial meeting and in that meeting the discussion watch. How do we deal with helen zille or how do we deal with with with additional because patricia the low was blowing the whistle on the arms deal and helen zille or had just been been appointed the premier and she was making a huge noise about this about but i age so i depute of time in the bottom when rules had a decision was made to simply weaponize water and they decided at that point in time that they going to turn water into a tour in india to weapon to teach to teach they did the d. N. A. Listen to particularly those 2 to one. Of the political games at the cost of ordinary citizens after zoomers resignation the cabinet was reshuffled. The new minister of water and sanitation facing the media. What do you tell people who blame the National Government for the crisis in cape town. No douglas formalistic you know it does is a formalistic approach thats in the streets to where im just that is situational you know when you emphasize that no no no one is the butt of this that when this National Liberal news broke up thats where your problem was is no no no thats and stick to what we must we must keep this side of the mentality in terms of the city we would one government. With true serious as one government response. Whether the new National Government will solve cape towns problems has yet to be seen the city has had to take on the task of finding new sources of water something which ought to be financed by the National Government. So the 3 can produce an initial plan so basically complete weve got to be providing water into the system or working on a way to really use the city and that will. See a yield being put into the system towards the end of this financial the new Financial Year and the drilling into aquifers are continuing and already generating some water. These new investments and Water Management have to be paid for under zuma corrupt officials plundered state coffers now keep tony and have to foot the bill but they feel they arent being given a say in policymaking. Ajay government at the at the local level in the provincial. The clear this is a crisis strongly push for. This to become a disaster. Under the conditions of a disaster the normal process is of checks and balances out he moved so this is but as a patient in these Decision Making is removed so that now where you would have been an application for desalination plants for example would go through certain checks and balances they said this is only part of the Decision Making process and comment. And i havent they say this because of the drought because they indicate a disaster that those rights of taking away. The 3 small desalination plants were set up hastily for a lot of money critics say they use a huge amounts of energy but only provide 2 percent of daily water demand. Climate changes altering global rainfall patterns higher latitudes in the tropics are expected to get wet or moderate latitudes and already eric regions will get drier cape towns municipal officials have recognised that surface water will no longer be sufficient for the growing city. Now theyre asking scientists whose warnings went unheeded for years to come up with quick solutions. And in a very short notice we got a message that the mayor is coming to visit a drilling site so she would really like to see drilling in frequently she would like to see water coming out of the ground at that stage we had no phone clicked with gorillas in place but we have heard that when a buyer wants to take a picture or something to your bike it happened so we had to ask a Drilling Company to take a little bit of risk and take a grilling regatta because they work through that they go wall and by that the mayor arrived and we took a picture and there was water coming out of. The messy phone as the Table Mountain group has a number of manmade reservoirs but these dams are just a drop in the bucket. Hundreds of meters down below the masses of gray sandstone are billions of cubic meters of Crystal Clear water and natural groundwater aquifers these fossil water sources are being explored as a possible solution to keep towns Drinking Water problems. To borehole here is already 850 meters deep and theres still no trace of groundwater. But you dont know that so you can be nervy. I guess there if you dont get water in the all your heads of lot of him so all will see how it goes this is like a city expiration so you learn a new field inspiration any any you only find out whats on the ground when you drill so you know. The problem is that the deep groundwater is not replenished rapidly too much is taken out the depleted water table will sink with potentially serious consequences for plant and animal life. Any activity like this as an impact i think we have to be honest about that whether to grab water. Boys who are removed if you are developing a water resource theres going to be an impact but quite clearly we dont have a choice in terms of building resilience for the future of. A grant is an important source of American Green is a true god but in terms of its size. Cape town is not alone with these problems half of the earths population is already grappling with water shortages cities from sao paulo to los angeles make headlines when they nearly run out of water and the scarcity cant necessarily be a