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Towards a water secure future: reflections on Cape Town’s Day Zero crisis
Capetonians have relied on dams to meet their needs for over a century. Extremely limited rainfall between 2015–2018, however, forced the City to impose a 50-litres per capita per day water restriction on its four million residents to avoid supply cut-offs. Cape Town’s water crisis highlights the importance of moving away from past infrastructural practices. South Africa needs a new water paradigm that embeds water sustainability and resilience in day-to-day practices that, inter alia, protects the natural water systems and ensures a sustainable water supply through reducing the environmental footprint of a growing population and developing alternative supply systems to dam infrastructure. To accomplish this, government, the private sector and consumers need to work together to develop and implement a water sensitive approach that will transform water planning, supply and demand at scale.
Towards a water secure future: reflections on Cape Town’s Day Zero crisis
Capetonians have relied on dams to meet their needs for over a century. Extremely limited rainfall between 2015–2018, however, forced the City to impose a 50-litres per capita per day water restriction on its four million residents to avoid supply cut-offs. Cape Town’s water crisis highlights the importance of moving away from past infrastructural practices. South Africa needs a new water paradigm that embeds water sustainability and resilience in day-to-day practices that, inter alia, protects the natural water systems and ensures a sustainable water supply through reducing the environmental footprint of a growing population and developing alternative supply systems to dam infrastructure. To accomplish this, government, the private sector and consumers need to work together to develop and implement a water sensitive approach that will transform water planning, supply and demand at scale.
Towards a water secure future: reflections on Cape Town’s Day Zero crisis
Taing, Lina (author) / Chang, C. C. (author) / Pan, S. (author) / Armitage, N. P. (author)
Urban Water Journal ; 16 ; 530-536
2019-08-09
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Day Zero: the role of social movements in the face Cape Town's water crisis
| BASE | 2019
| Wiley | 2018