Cape Town Is Set to Run Out of Water in Less Than One Hundred Days
https://futurism.com/cape-town-drought-day-zero/
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Cape Town Is Set to Run Out of Water in Less Than One Hundred Days
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What’s causing Cape Town’s water crisis?
08:07 17/05/2017
Cape Town - There are several likely causes of Cape Town’s water shortage. GroundUp spoke to Kevin Winter, a lecturer in Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Cape Town, who helped us get to the root of the problem (we take sole responsibility for any errors).
Population growing faster than storage
Since 1995 the city’s population has grown 55%, from about 2.4 million to an expected 4.3 million in 2018.
Over the same period, dam storage has increased by only 15%.
The Berg River Dam, which began storing water in 2007, has been Cape Town’s only significant addition to water storage infrastructure since 1995. It’s 130 000 megalitre capacity is over 14% of the 898 000 megalitres that can be held in Cape Town’s large dams. Had it not been for good water consumption management by the City, the current crisis could have hit much earlier.
08:07 17/05/2017
Cape Town - There are several likely causes of Cape Town’s water shortage. GroundUp spoke to Kevin Winter, a lecturer in Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Cape Town, who helped us get to the root of the problem (we take sole responsibility for any errors).
Population growing faster than storage
Since 1995 the city’s population has grown 55%, from about 2.4 million to an expected 4.3 million in 2018.
Over the same period, dam storage has increased by only 15%.
The Berg River Dam, which began storing water in 2007, has been Cape Town’s only significant addition to water storage infrastructure since 1995. It’s 130 000 megalitre capacity is over 14% of the 898 000 megalitres that can be held in Cape Town’s large dams. Had it not been for good water consumption management by the City, the current crisis could have hit much earlier.
I wonder if the South Africans dump a lot if their precious fresh water into swimming pools as the Californians do?
That's true, I wasn't thinking of all scientist, even the environmentalists that I work with call themselves Consultants and Engineers
All that Ocean and Sunshine and no Solar Powered Desalination Plant
Must be one of those Shithole countries Trump was talking about
Must be one of those Shithole countries Trump was talking about
Well it is the one you are talking about..trump never actually said that.
you just did
figures eh?