Cape Town’s plan to not run out of water again

[Bradley Prior]

Cape Town’s plan to not run out of water again

Cape Town is drilling boreholes and wells at a rapid rate to ensure it has a stable water supply.

According to a report in the Sunday Times, over 26,000 registered boreholes and wells have been created.

 

[Gordon_R]

TL;DR

Man proposes, but nature disposes.

 

[SilverCode]

What about the national governments plan to build more dams? Is there one, or are they just willfully endangering the people of Western Cape just because they didn't vote ANC? It is the national governments job to ensure waster security, not the local governments.

 

[Happy Days]

What about the national governments plan to build more dams? Is there one, or are they just willfully endangering the people of Western Cape just because they didn't vote ANC? It is the national governments job to ensure waster security, not the local governments.

The Water and Sanitation Department was destroyed by Nomvula Mokonyane, who has since been redeployed ans still features very high on the ANC's candidate list.

 

[BeerIsNotGood...]

What about the national governments plan to build more dams? Is there one, or are they just willfully endangering the people of Western Cape just because they didn't vote ANC? It is the national governments job to ensure waster security, not the local governments.

Federalism ftw

 

[BBSA]

Again?

 

[r00igev@@r]

I'll only start getting desperate when the whisky runs dry....

 

[Currantly]

Cape Town didn't run out of water because a big chunk of people saved a load of water; while all the CoCT did was increase water tariffs for paying citizens, and increase the free water allocation for non-payers.

 

[Gekco]

Drill more boreholes? And when the water in the aquifer runs dry?

 

[Dan C]

Drill more boreholes? And when the water in the aquifer runs dry?

Exactly.

 

[saor]

Saw some signs up at Newlands forest saying they're gonna be tapping into the supply there.

 

[air]

Jasper Slingsby from SAEON believes that attending to alien vegetation will yield massive benefits with significantly less spend than other proposed solutions.

 

[grok]

Drill more boreholes? And when the water in the aquifer runs dry?

They'll get some Italian engineer to come & fix it..

 

[Geoff.D]

Jasper Slingsby from SAEON believes that attending to alien vegetation will yield massive benefits with significantly less spend than other proposed solutions.

The real issues with that plan is the assumption that the removal of alien vegetation is going to increase water availability. No one knows what the true state of water supply was before the planting of the alien vegetation.
We might in fact actually achieve the exact opposite. Some more pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo at work.

 

[nightjar]

Cape Town’s plan to not run out of water again

Cape Town is drilling boreholes and wells at a rapid rate to ensure it has a stable water supply.

According to a report in the Sunday Times, over 26,000 registered boreholes and wells have been created.

The absence of Patricia De Lille from anything to do with Cape Town's water supply will also be hugely beneficial.

 

[konfab]

They'll get some Italian engineer to come & fix it..

You mean an Italian plumber?

 

[Gordon_R]

You mean an Italian plumber?

Its that the Italian version of Rick-rolling, to bring up the Super Mario name?