We welcome the attention given to the seriousness of Cape Town’s water situation in Business Day’s editorial column but would like to correct the perception that the city’s dams might run dry by January (Parched Cape runs out of time, October 30). Capetonians have done extremely well, bringing consumption down from 1.1-billion litres a day before restrictions to about 585-million litres per day, the lowest consumption achieved to date. The city has been working hard to drive down collective consumption towards 500-million litres a day. Measures include the introduction of advanced pressure management throughout the city, stricter enforcement of existing level-five water restrictions and the installation of water-management devices at properties where demand is excessively high. To achieve this, staff from the city’s water resilience task team are working day and night to bring additional supply into the system through desalination, groundwater abstraction and water reuse from a numb...
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