The metropolis of nearly 22 million people is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography and leaks — are compounded by climate change.
I was living in Cape Town when we were like 70 days from running out of water. It’s a very bleak prospect. I remember my one doctor saying that as soon as there was no water he was closing his practice and leaving. No water means people don’t wash their hands and illnesses start spread like wildfire.
We were lucky to get rain just before we ran out of water, but we also had a lot of conservation efforts.
But as you can imagine, the rich people didn’t give a fuck and would water their gardens in the middle of summer and just pay the fines…
I was living in Cape Town when we were like 70 days from running out of water. It’s a very bleak prospect. I remember my one doctor saying that as soon as there was no water he was closing his practice and leaving. No water means people don’t wash their hands and illnesses start spread like wildfire.
We were lucky to get rain just before we ran out of water, but we also had a lot of conservation efforts.
But as you can imagine, the rich people didn’t give a fuck and would water their gardens in the middle of summer and just pay the fines…