The City of Cape Town will look to the world’s leading cities to find solutions to its water woes. This comes amid fears that Capetonians are weeks away from running out of water. On Friday, mayor Patricia de Lille said the city hoped to help solve the problem as it took its place in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative‚ which was started by the Rockefeller Foundation and includes cities such as Athens‚ Barcelona‚ Atlanta‚ London and Los Angeles. Cape Town is currently running a workshop aimed at identifying its vulnerabilities. "One big stress that we are dealing with now is the drought. It’s the worst drought in 100 years and we are becoming very critical now in that we have got less than 21% of water in our dams‚" said De Lille. "The lessons that we are going to learn in this drought will be part of our resilience strategy on how to cope‚ how to manage and how to adapt [as a] drought-stricken area." Craig Kesson‚ who works in De Lille’s office‚ will be the City’s chief resilience ...
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