Water crisis in Cape Town ( South Africa ) 2018 - ' Day Zero '

The city of Cape Town could conceivably become the first major city in the world to run out of water, and that could happen in the next four months," Dr. Anthony Turton, professor at the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State, told the New York Times.

Here we are going to know more about this drought condition and Cape Town . If you have any idea about Cape Town then you may know that Cape Town is one of the most beautiful city in the world .....
Then why are we saying that there is water crisis ??? Let we know in detail ....

Do your research. You can do a million different things without a 100km in and around Cape Town.

The city itself, Waterfront, Cape Point, southern towns like Simonstown, Kalkbay, Houtbay, Muizenberg.

Then you have the wine lands around Stellenbosch and Frsnscchoek area, many different wine farms; all with accommodation, visiting and wine tasting facilities.

Then the lovely West Coast area, with the West Coast National Park, Yzerfontein, Langebaan, Saldanda, Paternoster etc.

Also remember a cable cart trip up Table Mountain, a boat trip to Robben Island; or just spending a day at the shops and restaurants at the Waterfront, most with sea views. You can also take boat trips and short helicopter rides from the Waterfront.

You will never be able to explore the entire Western Cape within two weeks. As an example. There’s too much to see and enjoy…

But tragedy is that this beauty is on way of extinction .....
Look what Cape Town is facing -
Cape Town South Africa is going to be the first major city in the world to be without water. 14th April 2018 is last day declared by the government to supply the water. At present army is protecting almost 30 water supply schemes. Watch the alarming video and Please show this video clip to your children, relatives, friends and to housemaids if hiring.

We have collected more information about Infrastructure planning in south Africa Cape Town ....

Cape Town's social planning and domestic policy are badly executed.

The central government has not allocated the funds necessary for managing their resources due to their focus on poverty alleviation and general social expenditure.

This is not helped by the failure to plan according to people's election cycles( running every four/five years), shortsighted business policies, rampant political rivalries, corruption(causes mismanagement), low economic growth, and high unemployment.

To understand this, we will need some background into how these underlying problems are contributing to this situation.

Cape Town’s local government is led by the Democratic Alliance(DA) while the local governments of Bloemfontein and Pretoria are still led by the African National Congress(ANC) with the relationship between the two political parties being characterized by rivalry after rivalry with racial division and corruption as the main flashpoints.

The ANC still holds the most seats in parliament and has exploited this to actively undermine the interests of their opposition, which is the DA, and EFF(Economic Freedom Fighters).

The Western Cape is the only province in the entire country to be ruled by a party other than the ANC, which you’ve guessed it, the DA, and so they decided to limit funds and resources to the province and have them allocated elsewhere when there is a clear shortage of both in the area!

Making matters worse is economic stagnation, lackluster planning, poor governance, business-unfriendly policies, poorly implemented domestic policies, and the effects of the global economic recession.

This has negatively impacted on investment, economic growth, employment, job creation, and overall financial inflow and revenue, and thus limiting the budgets that are supposed to be allocated to their cities.

This is not helped by the skeptical attitude towards the outside world from Cape Town's national government either, which could be used to introduce new infrastructure and gain access to much-needed international expertise.

Worst of all, the ensuing political rivalry and corruption is preventing any dialog from getting across between the parties involved on the ground, and thus hindering any assistance needed to address the problem.

All of has left Cape Town unable to prepare for the impending crisis adequately despite the metro - along with the entire province - being declared a disaster zone since last May.

What the crisis ends up reflecting is not just a climatic problem, it also shows Cape Town's deep-lying administrative and political problem as well.

In other words, the crisis would have not been so bad had the national government recognized the problem, set aside their differences, and reassessed their priorities early on.

Cape Town's politicians need to understand that an awareness of the internal and external challenges that our country faces with all of their complexities, and the sooner they grasp this, the better we’ll be able to have the crisis tackled with the required gumption, urgency, and most of all, agency.

Unfortunately, Cape Town's national government is too caught up in their old rivalries and myopic rhetoric to truly grasp the scope of the problem.

We have taken some public reviews too on this condition , -

Solution for this water crisis in Cape Town

One solution is for everyone to get behind the water restrictions and reduce our consumption. The denialists in some of the conspiracy theory groups concern we here - some of them deny the drought altogether. Amazing.

But in the long term, we do need more sources of supply - and multi-faceted sources at that, including:

• More dams
• Sustainable use of the aquifers (which means that somehow the city is going to have to get the authority to regulate boreholes - currently they fall under national government which is highly motivated not to help this “rogue” province in any way).
• Possibly desalination plants, but these are massively expensive both to build and run.

The big question is- what’s will happen if drought condition hits India such population dense country? 
Yes , we all are known about future of this condition . We must have to use water carefully . Our India is preparing for such future problems via some important works like interlinking of rivers .
I'll publish an article on Interlinking of rivers in India soon ....


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