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Cape Town’s Stark Water Divide
March 15th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on South Africa’s stark water divide: On Cape Town’s beaches, swimmers shower off sand from their feet. Irrigation pipes water the region’s famed vineyards. And Shadrack Mogress fumes as he fills a barrel with water so he can flush his toilet. It’s been four years since South Africa’s tourist capital […]
Read more »Scientists Project Increased Risk To Water Supplies In South Africa This Century
November 12th, 2021
Via Terra Daily, an article on scientific projections around increased risk sto water supplies in South Africa this century: In 2018, Cape Town, South Africa’s second most populous city, came very close to running out of water as the multi-year “Day Zero” drought depleted its reservoirs. Since then, researchers from Stanford University determined that climate […]
Read more »Cape Town Risk of ‘Day Zero’ Drought Seen Rising
November 14th, 2020
Via Smart Water Magazine, a report on Cape Town’s water challenge: Cape Town faces an 80% higher chance of another ‘Day Zero’ drought by the end of the century if greenhouse gas-emissions keep rising at current rates, research showed on Monday, as the South African city races to safeguard water supplies. Following a 2018 drought […]
Read more »Cape Town Taps Into ‘One Of World’s Biggest Aquifers’
August 12th, 2020
Via Times Live, a report on Cape Town’s inaugural use of a new source of underground water: Not long ago, Cape Town stood on the threshold of being the first major city in the world to run out of water. And while this was ultimately avoided, the city took no chances. In a move to end […]
Read more »Where Water Used To Be
March 29th, 2020
Courtesy of The London Review of Books, an article on global water scarcity: On? the second to last day of last year, I got on a flight to Mexico City. Four hours in, we were told we needed to make an emergency landing in Houston. The captain had noticed an oil leak shortly after we […]
Read more »Is Cape Town Really Past ‘Day Zero’?
January 17th, 2019
Via China Water Risk, a look at Cape Town and whether it is truly past ‘Day Zero’: A 50L/person/day water restriction & 40% farm use reduction were key to staving off ‘Day Zero’; combined with returned rainfall has bought time to find sustainable management approaches Key challenges to overcome include the supply-demand gap, political finger […]
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