Cape Town takes first step in bold new water plan
The first tender was issued on Wednesday for a scheme to augment Cape Town’s water supply. Unveiling the city council’s new water resilience plan on Thursday‚ mayor Patricia de Lille said a slew of other tenders would follow in the next few weeks. They will seek quotes for: • Groundwater extraction in Atlantis‚ Silverstroom‚ the Cape Flats‚ Cape Peninsula and Hottentots Holland; • Land-based desalination plants in Koeberg‚ Silverstroom‚ Woodbridge Island‚ Granger Bay‚ Hout Bay‚ Red Hill‚ Strandfontein‚ Monwabisi and Harmony Park; and • A desalination barge in Cape Town harbour. Together‚ these facilities would provide 200-million litres of water a day‚ or 40% of the target the council has challenged consumers to meet. De Lille said capital expenditure on these schemes would be R2bn in this financial year and the next‚ and operating expenses would be at least R1.3bn. Costing of further augmentation measures‚ which would bring the daily output to 500-million litres‚ was still being do...
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