1. Day Zero delayed Even as national government questions the City of Cape Town’s creation of the concept of Day Zero, the dreaded day has been pushed back. Thanks mostly to declining agriculture use, Day Zero has been delayed from May 11 to June 4. Cape Town residents have also dropped their consumption to 526Ml/day. Latest data from the city suggests that the average dam storage level is at 24.9%, a drop of 0.6% from last week. National government has declared the drought-affected Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape disaster areas. 2. Women bite back, loudly Groups of women have staged sit-ins in US cities to eat crisps. The "protest" follows comments made by PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi last week, who implied the company might make a new kind of crisp marketed at women. Women don’t like to crunch too loudly on a crisp in public, and they don’t lick their fingers generously, Nooyi said in an interview. The firm later said it had no intention of making gender-specific crisps, b...

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