The Cape Town dam level have increased to 21,4 percent but the city is urging residents to maintain water saving efforts.
Although there has been a slight increase in dam levels of 0,5% to an overall level of 21,4% as a result of some rainfall and lower evaporation rates, the city is urging residents to continue to stretch the remaining water in the dams as they simply do not know how much rain will fall over the winter months.
As of this morning, the dams are just 0.1% below the water supply level on the same day last year!
This is an incredible achievement of water saving by the people of Cape Town, given that the dam levels at the start of the year were at 31% compared to 46% last year.
The city of Cape Town’s collective consumption over the past week was 554 million litres of water per day.
This is a 6,7% increase from consumption of 519 million litres last week. It places Cape Town 104 million litres above the usage target of 450 million litres per day that the National Department of Water and Sanitation has set as a requirement.
“We do know that the majority of our water users are doing their best to lower usage to 50 litres per day to get to the requirement of 450 million litres, but there may be a bit of complacency creeping in. I would like to call on all Capetonians to remain on course with their savings efforts. As Cape Town has shown the rest of South Africa and the world already, we are capable of meeting challenges head-on and pulling together to do what is required.”
From the City’s side, they will continue to work 24/7 to help keep Day Zero away.
In addition to their internal water-saving efforts and our advanced pressure management programme, which is saving approximately 52 million litres of water per day, the water resilience programme will bring more of their augmentation projects online over the coming months.
“However, we still do not know how much rainfall we are likely to receive over the winter season, so we simply cannot afford to relax our savings efforts.”
Please visit www.capetown.gov.za/thinkwater for all water-related information.
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