Cape Town Cycle Tour will bring in 2-million litres of water for 15,000 cyclists
Portable toilets at the event will use grey water sourced from water treatment facilities, while spring water and desalinated water will be used for drinking
The Cape Town Cycle Tour will add 2-million litres of water to the city’s local water grid to offset the water footprint of an estimated 15‚000 participants from beyond the Western Cape’s borders. Organisers of the tour — which will go ahead in 2018 — said they would purchase 2-million litres of spring water sourced from only licensed suppliers‚ outside of the drought-ravaged province. Addressing media at the Cullinan Hotel in Cape Town‚ Cape Town Cycle Tour trust marketing, media and sponsorship director David Bellairs said yet another extreme weather event would not prevent them from hosting the cycle tour, which he vowed would use no municipal water. Over the past three years, the event has been plagued by extreme weather, with fires resulting in a shortened route in 2016 and the cancellation of the event in 2017 due to gale force winds causing consternation at the starting line, where bicycles took to the air like kites.
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