We all know the meaning of water and the importance that it carries in our life. No Water, no life! You could live without a smart phone (Yes! Our ancestors have proved it). You could live without Wi-Fi as well but without water we all know what could happen. Even though everybody knows the importance of it, the current generation never really cares much about the scarcity of it. Probably, it’s one of those things which even though is quite possible yet we try not to focus on it. Nah! It won’t happen! It’s Fake News!
I, for one, had never thought that I would see such a scarcity to happen during my life time. I’m not a native of that country however it still bothered me as I came across the news. Yes, one of the famous city of the world is actually facing one of the worst droughts and is set to face a water crisis unparalleled in the history. Cape Town.
Zero Day! Ah, that famed word that we’ve always loved in all those sci-fi movies when an epidemic happens. 16 April 2018. The Zero day when almost a million people of Cape Town will open the tap and nothing will come out of it. Almost 75% of the population of the city. This is frightening to say the least. 3 year straight drought has led to this.
You don't see a Smartphone or an Ipad in their hands! Just the bottle of waters! Empty!
“We’ve identified four risks: water shortages, sanitation failures, disease outbreaks and anarchy due to competition for scarce resources,” says the head of Cape Town’s disaster operations. “We had to go back to the drawing board. We were prepared for disruption of supply, but not a no-water scenario. In my 40 years in emergency services, this is the biggest crisis.”
An Individual could only legally get 25 litres of water for all their usage.
This much! To drink, to bathe, to wash, for sanitation purpose! Daily!
Unless we don’t get on an Earth 2.0, this looks really scary!
The delayed disaster of 2012 is catching up folks. Run! Run! Run!
Haha! Indeed!
This one is on the African National Congress. They didn't cause the drought but, didn't they think allowing millions of squatters into the area might tax the resources some day? What happens if the fruit producers plants (trees and vines start to die-off from a lack of water).
Over the years have the ANC built more and more reservoirs? Better roads or airports? None that I know of, although I may not be well informed. In fact, I don't remember any leadership at all out of them, like you would have seen out of differently constituted bodies of legislators in the past. Wanting to rule and ruling efficiently and effectively are two different things. The output of Nationalist Governments may not have been fair to South African society, but the output of the ANC is dangerous and even fatal, not only to individuals but to organized society as well.
I agree with you! They have totally failed in this matter! Politics must be kept aside during such measures!
It is actually astonishing to learn that the rich can still dig boreholes for them as there is no restrictions regarding the same! As digging boreholes is quite expensive only rich could afford it and not everybody. Water is a necessity and everyone should have equal right! Poor and rich alike!