Cape Town South Africa doesn't have a large water basin to begin with, it's one of the reasons why the native South Africans never settled in the area in the first place, because droughts where to unpredictable.

I live in South Africa Cape Town Our damns are rising but we are still having water restrictions to be extra careful

Great news is that as of 10/06 CT's dam levels were at 32% total stored capacity, up from 21% a year ago. And we've had good rains in the last week, too.

11 year old me here bc my geography teacher sent us this link. These poor people😕😟

we getting better!!!! Cape Town has had all rainy days this winter!!! some sunny but its getting so much better!

This story is outdated , there have been some really good rains in recent weeks.

I'm from Cape Town. Many people are saying it was a scam and that they told us the dams were so low when they were actually quite high, but you never know

Did the police close down the car washes in town as well??? That was heartbreaking to watch.

So slowly and surely, slowly but soon we be facing the same

We've had heavy rain over the last few weeks. The current water levels aggregated for all our dams are at 50%. This happened about 10 years ago.

in a bond movie, there was a villain that made the whole country collapse because of no water..

At the moment Dam levels are way past 2017 and near to 2016 levels.

That police patrol made me a bit uneasy. Why are they punishing the people that use the least amount of water. Go to the rich peoples houses and fine them for petty things.

Honestly It's not that surprising that this is happening, in ireland, a country know for rain, there were water shortages this summer and water restrictions and hose pipe bans were introduced

People continue to move there for the natural beauty but they have to understand the area does not support a continuous water resource. The responsibility is with the residents who live in the metropolitan area as well.

I feel so sorry for them

We lived water scarcity in North Africa, I use to carry with me container of 3 gallon everyday bring water to drink and wash. We take shower onece a week

Does anyone know where I can find any information sources used for this video?

Thanks!

my grandma always have said that the trees and plants calls the rain. So each household should plant trees and plants. and rain will come.

why is the video coming out nooow? day zero has been avoided for this year cause luckily it‘s been raining the last few weeks so the basins around cape town are filling up again

We went through this in Melbourne Australia a few years ago, it wasn't as bad as this but it was scary while going through it.

Update!! Dam levels are now at 50%. Here trusting this will increase with the rest of the Winter rain.

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The police confiscate the water hoses AND throw the remaining water onto the street... what? I wonder if the lack of water will somehow intensify conflict in the region, or if it's mainly a problem in the capital.

The situation is better now, lot of rain is coming, dam level is reaching up to 50 percent, so need to have any panic

Reminiscent of Melbourne Australia. We have big water supply problems.

the dams are almost full because it was raining so much

Thank you for this. I read the articles in Januray, thinking that Cape Town had run out of water as there were no more media reports. I'm glad to hear of this somewhat fortunate turn of events. I hope others will also reduce their impact on climate change by perhaps becoming more open minded to the zero waste movement and reducing their meat intake. Zero waste seeks to reduce our environmental impact by reducing waste sent to landfills and instead focus on using reusable or recyclable products, partly to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from producing single use products. Veganism and vegetarianism also goes in hand with reducing our environmental impact by avoiding meat. Cows and other meat creatures consume more grains and water to feed. As more water is used to feed the cows and produce the grains that cows eat, we run out of available drinking water. Also, cows fart methane, a gas much more potent as a greenhouse gas that carbon dioxide. So I urge you to reduce your meat intake by even just having Meatless Monday. Please, if you can take part in reducing climate change, just do it.

I'm a local resident I must say this video exaggerates our situation. We are doing fine here.

Water does not disappear unless it's deliberately broken down into oxygen and hydrogen at a molecular level with a electrical charge, being humanity is not producing hydrogen at a commercial level water is being displaced, if the ice caps are melting a larger than normal amount of water should be introduced into the water cycle yet water shortages are affecting all continents... Could the cause be water hording at a commercial level as has been reported several times before and the process of fracking that introduces vast amounts of water deep into the Earth's mantle therefore requiring tens of thousands of years for the same water to be filtered out on to the surface?

I don’t get it how so when it’s located in next to the ocean

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San Paulo ! Ran dry too .

The problems of overpopulation in an area not really suitable for human life

it started raining, how did Cape Town start making it rain?

POV: ur here because your teacher made you

And here I am complaining about how it rained for 6 months where I live. I will never complain again.

That’s an extreme version of what it is like to live with a water tank

what is the city doing to address the issue? pipelines from the many SA rivers? boreholes? Capetown residents can't wait to waste water again.

In Karachi, Pakistan, a large city, they only have water taps available once a week, at best

Same happened with Israel now they have enough water to seek to neighboring countries, they just need to innovate instead of being corrupt

Why they not evacuating and move those people out, because it's for the safety of Cape Town. "State of emergency"

Water is plenty in Cape Town, but it was a salt water.

Desalinization plants?

50 litres per day, wtf

This isn't the wake up call. This is the "you have 30 minutes to show up to work or you're fired" call

Why are people even disliking this video

Warning for all

If they predicted there was going to be a water crisis why wouldn't they invest in desalination plants?

the water restrictions are over i live in south Africa

can they do what some part of America are doing taking sewage water and using filters to take all the nasty stuff out or does the government not have enough funds for that?

Meh 100 years ago everyone everywhere was collecting water from pumps. My village still has two pumps that work and there's only around 150 - 200 people in it

Never happened before 1994...

This happened yesterday

After june july 2018 rain.... day zero has been set. Back by 973729596 days

What I don't understand, can they not get water from Johannesburg? or from the green areas in South AFrica?

The government is particularly to blame here with lack of proper infrastructure planning etc. and they should be looking at new engineering projects such as sea water desalination plants like the Middle East. It’s one thing to blame lack of rain, another thing to lack planning ahead with a 50 year plan.

Water the next oil

That was a genuine drought.

reverse affirmative action failing to fill needed engineering positions at the water companies

Ever heard of building a desalination facility?

why stop car washes if they only use 4% of the total water supply.

The reason Capetonians got it right is because we knew the national government couldn't care less if we ran out of water.

Rome and Lisbon have both run out of water. Cape Town is not the first.

Cisterns ppl cisterns it helps alot

They should build a factory to turn sea water into fresh water if it's that bad. Then raise taxes on the water when it's done to pay for it.

I grew up on water I must use 60 gallons a day because of my OCD washing if I was on able to wash when I needed to I would rather die than do not wash

It could be coming here

WTII otcmkts, makes water out of the AIR, imagine pure drinking water, think of all the possibilities, watering crops, filling reservoirs, filling water tanks, living off Grid, Your own personal water supply when things get bad, different sizes available to own

Thats your avocado at work

Cape Town - Dams feeding Cape Town are currently 53% full - 28 percentage points higher than last year, when the drought was at its worst.

Dont blame swimming pools and the rich. In California, even poor neighborhoods have lawns vs concrete or desert plants, that is like 50 gallons per day. Zoning laws mandated a certain amount of green space, instead of concrete. Those plants need water. Stores sell low quality 0.5 and 1gpm showerheads, not improving the quality of low gpm showers, to encourage lower consumption. If you use a 2.5 gpm vs 1.0 gpm, a family of 4 wastes 60 gallons per day. Further, we send rain water down canals into oceans, instead off towards large lakes like the Salton sea. Policywise, we throw away water, and then blame everyone for taking too many showers, and raise water rates as a penalty.

Now Capetown has bad floods

karachi, a city of 20 million, is out of water and no one is talking about it...

You're literally celebrating austerity measures.

Bs cape town did not stop day zero.....its called rain wonderful rain that filled our dams.

i dont understand. if they have so little water, why would they ever waste it on washing their cars? what is the purpose of having a clean car when u dont have enough water to drink? why dont they just keep their cars dirty?

Desalination will solve this problem eventually but for that we also need renewable energy and more plants - which mean A LOT OF MONEY

Hurry up.

Build a water reclamation plant that uses "REVERSE OSMOSIS" 2 produce clean water ASAP!!!!

Funny irony, he has a pool but cant use it... not enough water....

i think the government don't want to invest in a decent water plant. they can get water from the sea, they can dig or recreate a dam.

Why not just shut off water at problem areas

Too many people

We are experiencing floods!! Why don't we transport water in tankers to Africa?

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But you live next to the ocean... haven't you heard of desalination plants. When my air conditioner runs there is a steady steam of condensate water that comes off of it. Same with my car. Run it through a filter and to a tank. Hell even a dehumidifier collects water.

I live in cape town

the levels are up to 70%

why don't they build a desal plant

50 litres a day rationing? That's insane. I'm paying for utilities, why would you ration me the paying customer? Water is everywhere 300 metres below ground in the bedrock.

To fine a person that has no money is a joke. They do it in the US too

That guy in the beginning low key looks like a younger elon musk.

The earth will always try to clean up where ppl are to many and polute to much or use to much from nature

Blame political differences within South Africa, it's not just climate change.

this stuff is not real because I live there

Even the police took action on the poor one not a rich one

How can Cape town run out of water when Cape town is near the ocean? This is making me confused

Save water and forests...humans ll be saved automatically