Day Zero : What will happen to us

Tander said:
If this is the case, then why is everyone worried about Day Zero? These plants will be online in March and producing a significant amount of water. Unless if course it’s all BS and they won’t ?
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The combination of all the desalination plants, plus pumping from the aquifer, would still only be a fraction of the daily demand. Maybe enough to eke out 25l per person per day, but probably not eough to keep pumping through the normal pipelines.

Edit: Not sure of the exact numbers, but here is a recent article: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-as-cape-town-dams-dry-up-in-drought-20180111

The City has a licence to extract 80 million litres of water from the Cape Flats Aquifer per day, 40 million from the Table Mountain Group Aquifer and 40 million from the Atlantis Aquifer.
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Gordon_R said:
The combination of all the desalination plants, plus pumping from the aquifer, would still only be a fraction of the daily demand. Maybe enough to eke out 25l per person per day, but probably not eough to keep pumping through the normal pipelines.
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I think it's about 5l per person from desalination.
 
Gordon_R said:
The combination of all the desalination plants, plus pumping from the aquifer, would still only be a fraction of the daily demand. Maybe enough to eke out 25l per person per day, but probably not eough to keep pumping through the normal pipelines.

Edit: Not sure of the exact numbers, but here is a recent article: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-as-cape-town-dams-dry-up-in-drought-20180111
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Oh yeah. So usage of 500m liters per day... there is just not enough capacity to cover that.

So, day zero is now highly likely unless something drastic happens? Or is there nothing to be done now? (Even an above average rainfall for the next two months ) ?
 
Tander said:
Oh yeah. So usage of 500m liters per day... there is just not enough capacity to cover that.

So, day zero is now highly likely unless something drastic happens? Or is there nothing to be done now? (Even an above average rainfall for the next two months ) ?
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Yes, although the date is still uncertain, and there may be a period of low-flow before final cutoff...
 
daveza said:
I think very little will continue as normal.

No running water and no flushing toilets across the peninsula - how can it be normal.
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Went through no water for 2 or 3 weeks down here, people don't realise just what's in store .... nothing close to normal.
 
Right now it all hinges on how effectively DWS can manage the water consumption of farmers. If farmers stop using once they hit their allocation for the year the city gets another 70 odd days of water at least
 
So when Theewaters runs dry then what will happen to the rest of the dams?

Will they take over the large area that Theewaters covers until they are finished?

TW does most of the cape flats / s subs. Where I stay we are fed from Wemmershoek which is 52%

I haven't come across anywhere that explains what happens when TW dries up but the rest still have water.
It is by far the largest and serves the most but what about the areas that don't get from TW?
 
blunt said:
So when Theewaters runs dry then what will happen to the rest of the dams?

Will they take over the large area that Theewaters covers until they are finished?

TW does most of the cape flats / s subs. Where I stay we are fed from Wemmershoek which is 52%

I haven't come across anywhere that explains what happens when TW dries up but the rest still have water.
It is by far the largest and serves the most but what about the areas that don't get from TW?
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They are all interconnected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Cape_Water_Supply_System

The Western Cape Water Supply System (WCWSS) is a complex water supply system in the Western Cape region of South Africa, comprising an inter-linked system of six main dams, pipelines, tunnels and distribution networks, and a number of minor dams, some owned and operated by the Department of Water and Sanitation and some by the City of Cape Town.
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When sandton didnt have water for 3 days a while back it was really terrible. I cant imagine it as a new permanent issue. Omg
 
BeerIsNotGood... said:
Oh god...

How did you manage bathroom activities?
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driving to the beach and filling up tons of bottles from the last time we had no water every few days. It was something I never wanna go through again. CT people are in for a shock.
 
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