"Day Zero” - South Africa

dineshb316 · Postby **dineshb316** » January 17th, 2018, 4:18 am

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa’s Cape Town, one of the world’s iconic tourist destinations, could run out of water by April as the city’s worst drought in a century risks forcing residents to join queues for emergency rations.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-safrica-drought-capetown/without-rain-south-africas-cape-town-may-run-out-of-water-by-april-idUKKBN1F51D2

VexXx Dogg · Postby **VexXx Dogg** » January 17th, 2018, 9:32 am

That's all kinds of screwed up

Dizzy28 · Postby **Dizzy28** » January 17th, 2018, 9:37 am

Maybe in the future we can export water

Hydro>Petro!!!!!

airuma · Postby **airuma** » January 17th, 2018, 9:44 am

Maybe the public utilities minister could link up some sales for WASA bottled water!

skylinechild · Postby **skylinechild** » January 17th, 2018, 11:08 am

airuma wrote:Maybe the public utilities minister could link up some sales for WASA bottled water!

doh make dem kinda joke soldier..... dem fools in govt ( and opposition) cud very well do it...and have another country owing us..and years later just scratch off that debt.

Redman · Postby **Redman** » January 17th, 2018, 11:28 am

Suriname floated the idea of exporting water via a massive flexible tank towed by tug.

rspann · Postby **rspann** » January 17th, 2018, 3:50 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:Maybe in the future we can export water

Hydro>Petro!!!!!

They can't get water to Penal two weeks now , is South Africa they will reach ?

Dizzy28 · Postby **Dizzy28** » January 17th, 2018, 4:03 pm

rspann wrote:
Dizzy28 wrote:Maybe in the future we can export water

Hydro>Petro!!!!!

They can't get water to Penal two weeks now , is South Africa they will reach ?

It'll be easier to ship water onto boats from one of ours dam via a new and dedicated main than it would ever be to ever fix the existing leaky transmission system throughout the country.