Day Zero is off the cards for Cape Town in 2019. Deputy mayor Ian Neilson said on Thursday that dam levels of 43.3% and continued low water consumption meant the city was in the clear for next year. With above-average rainfall predicted until October and dams already higher than they were at the end of last winter‚ Neilson said the city council hoped to relax water restrictions "and the tariffs associated with them" in the near future. He said: "This decision is dependent on national government relaxing restrictions on releases from the water supply system." The Department of Water and Sanitation has told the City of Cape Town to use no more than 450-million litres of water a day‚ but the target has not yet been met. "Over the last few months‚ our collective water usage has been around 520-million litres a day‚" Neilson told a media briefing. Cape Town’s latest water map shows that a record 400‚000 households used less than 10‚500l of water in May‚ including 217‚000 which consumed l...
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