New water restriction tariffs hit Cape Town: what you need to know

[mercurial]

So how long does water 'keep'? If I wanted to stockpile some bottles, would the water go off?

Go for it. Let us know.

 

[Geoff.D]

So how long does water 'keep'? If I wanted to stockpile some bottles, would the water go off?

Depends on the impurities in the water. So the better way to do this is to recycle the water through your stockpile. Don't just buy and let it stand forever on the shelf. In principal water can't really go off.

 

[Archer]

So how long does water 'keep'? If I wanted to stockpile some bottles, would the water go off?

If the bottle is properly sealed and stored in a dark place you should be fine up to about the 6 month mark if using plastic bottles. Glass there shouldn't be an issue ever. But I stress, only if it is sealed and stored properly. It's mostly about making sure stuff can't grow in the water

 

[Scooby_Doo]

So how long does water 'keep'? If I wanted to stockpile some bottles, would the water go off?

Water will go stale if left open to air (taste funny, not really bad for you). So get some dark glass or plastic bottles and fill to the brim and it should be good to go. You can always boil the water again if you need to.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Depends on the impurities in the water. So the better way to do this is to recycle the water through your stockpile. Don't just buy and let it stand forever on the shelf. In principal water can't really go off.

If the bottle is properly sealed and stored in a dark place you should be fine up to about the 6 month mark if using plastic bottles. Glass there shouldn't be an issue ever. But I stress, only if it is sealed and stored properly. It's mostly about making sure stuff can't grow in the water

Water will go stale if left open to air (taste funny, not really bad for you). So get some dark glass or plastic bottles and fill to the brim and it should be good to go. You can always boil the water again if you need to.

Cheers chaps. Just wondering about the possibility of doing it now while it still available (and a lot cheaper than I suspect it will become).

 

[The_Mowgs]

Quick question. This water shedding that we now have in the Cape, does this actually save water? Does it not just postpone when I will use the water?

The water was off here now for 3 hours so we could not do the dishes or bath the children but the water just came back on again so now we are doing all of those things.

 

[xrapidx]

Quick question. This water shedding that we now have in the Cape, does this actually save water? Does it not just postpone when I will use the water?

The water was off here now for 3 hours so we could not do the dishes or bath the children but the water just came back on again so now we are doing all of those things.

I'd say potentially worse. I'm the sort of person that'll check the water, and forget the tap open if there's no water.

 

[cavedog]

Sad to see that Cape Town is suffering with no water yet City of Tshwane leave water like this flowing from a burst pipe for 2 weeks after I reported the leek 8 times..... Leak got fixed 2 weeks later. How many millions of liters of water got wasted. :wtf:

 

[neoprema]

How much would it cost to build large high-pressure pipelines from say 400-800KM away to get water to Cape Town? More or less than the Govt currently squanders on nonsense?

I feel for the ppl of ct. If the money were just spent in the right place...

 

[Pox]

no need to build new dams - the coct should have dredged the dried up dams deeper so they hold more water for the same surface area.

A construction company already worked out what thst would take. It was something in the order of millions of truck-loads of silt and sand.

So that wasn't an option.

 

[JJCT]

So how long does water 'keep'? If I wanted to stockpile some bottles, would the water go off?

I have been collecting water from the Newlands spring for about a year now in 3 25lt barrels. They are "clear" plastic but I keep them covered in my garage. After about 2 weeks it starts to taste and smell slightly different but I have never had any issues and I only drink and cook with that water.

 

[biometrics]

How much would it cost to build large high-pressure pipelines from say 400-800KM away to get water to Cape Town? More or less than the Govt currently squanders on nonsense?

I feel for the ppl of ct. If the money were just spent in the right place...

Mountains and private property make pipelines difficult to do. Would take many years to plan and execute.

 

[Azg]

How much would it cost to build large high-pressure pipelines from say 400-800KM away to get water to Cape Town? More or less than the Govt currently squanders on nonsense?

I feel for the ppl of ct. If the money were just spent in the right place...

More than 70% of the earth is covered by water and the oceans hold 96% that water. Given those statistics desalination plants seem like the best bet for Cape Town in the long run.

 

[ZuluKing]

Why is the Cape not building sewage treatment plants instead of illegally pumping all the sewage into the sea all along the coast and poisoning the planet?

Even KZN has sewage treatment plants.

The fact water has been "recycled" since its existence!

Desalination is energy-hungry, requiring enormous effort to create drinkable water.

Mother Nature might start looking after you if you look after Nature!

Drinking recycled wastewater is a no-brainer!

Recycling wastewater for irrigation and other non-drinkable uses is already commonplace in most of the world but not in the Cape.

The same technology is used to treat drinking water supplies that have become contaminated – and it’s been around for centuries.

 

[2023]

Why is the Cape not building sewage treatment plants instead of illegally pumping all the sewage into the sea all along the coast and poisoning the planet?

It has treatment plants, and it's not "illegally pumping all the sewage into the sea".

 

[Slootvreter]

Why is the Cape not building sewage treatment plants instead of illegally pumping all the sewage into the sea all along the coast and poisoning the planet?

Even KZN has sewage treatment plants.

The fact water has been "recycled" since its existence!

Desalination is energy-hungry, requiring enormous effort to create drinkable water.

Mother Nature might start looking after you if you look after Nature!

Drinking recycled wastewater is a no-brainer!

Recycling wastewater for irrigation and other non-drinkable uses is already commonplace in most of the world but not in the Cape.

The same technology is used to treat drinking water supplies that have become contaminated – and it’s been around for centuries.

Jissis where do you come from? :erm: Do you think there are no waste water treatment plants in Cape Town? :crylaugh:

There is already plans to use the filtered effluent for the construction industry, so they don't use fresh water.

 

[Gordon_R]

Do you think there are no waste water treatment plants in Cape Town? :crylaugh:

There is already plans to use the filtered effluent for the construction industry, so they don't use fresh water.

https://www.google.co.za/maps/@-34.0853762,18.5187186,2620m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Great birdwatching at Strandfontein Wastewater Treatment Site, if you aren't too sensitive to odours...

 

[Geoff.D]

It has treatment plants, and it's not "illegally pumping all the sewage into the sea".

Those of us who lived in bloubergstrand in the 60's and 70's know differently. There was never that vrot smell around and the sea foam was never as bad or with that sickly baby cr@p yellow colour. Maybe they are within the rules BUT the volumes of sewage discharge into the sea has increased beyond what the sea is able to handle. There is just not enough waste treatment capacity available for the increased population density, which means the council has been sitting on its arse for years.

 

[web]

How much would it cost to build large high-pressure pipelines from say 400-800KM away to get water to Cape Town? More or less than the Govt currently squanders on nonsense?

I feel for the ppl of ct. If the money were just spent in the right place...

At about R7500/m for the actual excavation,laying backfilling for a 1000Ømm continually welded steel pipeline, this excludes the pipe which they could probably get for around R700/m. This excludes payment to land owners, cathodic protection, pump stations, break pressure tanks, environmental rehabilitation the list goes on and on. That excludes design fees. Also probably take 20 years to manufacture the pipe if i currently wait up to 8 months to get 4.9km worth.

As for the other comment about hollowing out table mountain from someone else...:wtf:

 

[C4Cat]

Why is the Cape not building sewage treatment plants instead of illegally pumping all the sewage into the sea all along the coast and poisoning the planet?

Even KZN has sewage treatment plants.

The fact water has been "recycled" since its existence!

Desalination is energy-hungry, requiring enormous effort to create drinkable water.

Mother Nature might start looking after you if you look after Nature!

Drinking recycled wastewater is a no-brainer!

Recycling wastewater for irrigation and other non-drinkable uses is already commonplace in most of the world but not in the Cape.

The same technology is used to treat drinking water supplies that have become contaminated – and it’s been around for centuries.

We shouldn't be ****ting in our drinking water anymore anyway. It's retarded. Society needs to adapt and change to use less clean water for things other than cleaning and drinking.