Cape Town: Life without Water

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Day Zero doesn’t stop at Cape Town. What will it take to avoid a future crisis? Find out more at www.wateraid.org/uk/cape-town
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'Rich people don't sleep well when poor people are thirsty.' How Cape Town residents are living with the threat of the taps running dry and have changed their relationship with water forever.
Day Zero doesn’t stop at Cape Town. What will it take to avoid a future crisis? Find out more at
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@bluesky-pb9di 4 жыл бұрын

Smart woman at 15:35 for thanking JESUS for the blessing of water.

@prrrrck 6 жыл бұрын

One day people will understand the power of air humidity and shade. You heard here first. ;) If a costal city is running out of water it's because of sheer lack of thinking from all parties neglecting the natural filtration system provided by the soil and evaporation. Just think, people.

@kojomensah7474 6 жыл бұрын

You chop down all the trees so what do u expect

@vyntuxbury 5 жыл бұрын

invest in Nestle- a nearly perfect vertically integrated water business

@drsergekuznetsov 6 жыл бұрын

In Russia and Moscow we've got plenty of water so far. I wish I could share it with the people in need.

@rustypudder7072 6 жыл бұрын

drsergekuznetsov Ive read 40% of all water in the Moscow region is beyond human use from pollution.

@PhoenixWang 6 жыл бұрын

I don't get how the old lady could possibly feel good about drilling for water to fill up her pool and water her lawn while she recognizes that the rest of Cape Town is suffering privations under the water shortage. She is depriving others of groundwater resources to keep herself comfortable.

@tellingfoxtales 6 жыл бұрын

As far as she is concerned, it isn't her problem, the vast majority of people have this thinking, they just don't have the money to actually act on it. Later they talk about people cracking open pipes to fill a bucket and run, same thinking, less money.

@YoushaAhmad 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, in many water stressed countries you would need a permit to drill for water. She is basically taking from a shared, stressed resource without any good reason.

@brandonsterlingon6130 6 жыл бұрын

Phoenix Wang Typical white people behavior.

@alpha3305 6 жыл бұрын

Understandable that she's happy and she spent tons of money to make it happen so now a return is possible. But the least she could do is charge a fractional price for the drinkable water for her community to help the less fortunate and at the same time try to recoup the financial losses.

@brandonsterlingon6130 6 жыл бұрын

Trey Thornton-Griggs Too much like right.

@robertcharpentier6852 5 жыл бұрын

Cape Town should have five or six large desalination plants on the coast. Israel gets 95% of its water from its desalination plants. StocktonRob

@thomasrose38 6 жыл бұрын

Get some D salinisation plants set up you got a whole ocean off the coast things will get back to normal it's been happening since we came down from the trees even before more people in the cities they must create a new water infrastructure

@shmibbybibby7668 3 жыл бұрын

It disgusts me that the woman living in the nice house was using all that water on herself, I thought that she was going to donate it.

@SUKHPALSINGH-we3oh 6 жыл бұрын

Nice coverage

@cujoemblakka1041 6 жыл бұрын

Look, South Africa, you're an ocean facing nation, you can invest in solar panel farms,wind farms, and desalination plants to ease the water shortage. Take a loan from China if you have to, people can't live without water. You're not sure to find underground water, but ocean water is available, invest long term in water, and energy.

@jamesshen9694 6 жыл бұрын

Chinese money went there before, only to found Cape Town is too dangerous for investment, very high Crime Rate.

@shanfeng5660 5 жыл бұрын

How about stilling the sea to get drinking water？

@felipeallegro9683 6 жыл бұрын

I find so sad 😞 How it’s possible that Israel who is a desert has so much water 💧 and Cape Town do not... Yes I am sorry 😐 the government should fell ashamed and start to really work towards a solution... Desalination?

@strgazerlilly 6 жыл бұрын

Felipe Allegro that's a wonderful Idea the technology already exists and I can't even think of a reason not to use it there

@thesoundofthesuburbs 6 жыл бұрын

It's too expensive for South Africa.

@felipeallegro9683 6 жыл бұрын

Well the idea it’s to expensive doesn’t make sense, obviously something it’s wrong with the system who doesn’t allow the Market to take care of this problem... Are you suggesting that it’s no value proposition to offer water 💦 to millions of people? Maybe what you should say is my country doesn’t value private property and regulates the cost of water in other to artificially make lower than the real cost, making illogical to any one to invest in the solution of this problem.

@thesoundofthesuburbs 6 жыл бұрын

The bulk of South Africans would not be able to afford the water, and the cost of borrowing for South Africa would likely be too high. I don't recall what the alternative proposed some years ago was. It was not desalination. Unfortunately, the federal government refused to act.

@eddemian 6 жыл бұрын

Reforestation is the solution.

@Abel1120 6 жыл бұрын

rich people prepare, while poor people ask for help.... that is the different of the mind sets.

@rustypudder7072 6 жыл бұрын

Abel1120 conlget one has the financial ability to prepare

@RegularDude00 3 жыл бұрын

Idiot as if poor people have the money to afford that. Please delete your acc.

@marcofitz2483 6 жыл бұрын

Poor people are going to starve to death, and soon will be uprisings over water

@kayaleigh913 6 жыл бұрын

marco fitz yep ;(

@jeffreyrichardson 5 жыл бұрын

ingersoll rand wells lauries fish burnt to a crisp scott sits chews the dip

@kojomensah7474 6 жыл бұрын

Plant more trees to hold the water on the land south africans the pink Europeans has the money to do desalination

@dora7131 6 жыл бұрын

Swimming pool? 😤

@burthollabaugh2182 6 жыл бұрын

Dora opfermann : As far as we know no,. no one has a swimming pool.

@Crashed131963 5 жыл бұрын

World water shortage and the South and North pole ice caps are melting? Make up your mind!

@user-cn9cj6fs8k 9 күн бұрын

Οταν έπρεπε να κάνουν γεωτρήσεις αυτοί χόρευαν στα γλέντια

@mna9211 5 жыл бұрын

Don't worry water crisis is coming to India.

@petroldevo9934 5 жыл бұрын

I'd bet she washes her LEXUS every day...

@A_longer_eel 4 жыл бұрын

why do feel like a socialist revolution or reformation is going to happen soon in cape town....