Vulnerable People and Places Blog

Often, natural resources are taken for granted, such as trees, clean air, and water. However, the residents of Cape Town, South Africa at the moment are anything but ungrateful for every drops of usable water they can acquire. As water become scarce, an order to be taken effect on February 1 st “will cut city resident’s daily water usage by nearly half over current restrictions” (Lynn, 2018). This is over a “calls to limit individual consumption to 87 liters per day” (Calder, 2018). Which in perspective, is around 23 containers of gallon milk. In comparison, the estimated water usage for the average American is somewhere between 80 and 100 gallons a day.                The three year of ongoing drought bringing in 1/3 of the expected rainfall has caused dams and reservoirs to be sitting at 27.2% of the capacity (Calder, 2018). Once the capacity hits 13.5% capacity, or day zero, water supply will the turned off to all but essential services such as hospitals. Afterward, the nearly

Back in 2017 much talk was being passed around about the proposed budget for the next four years. This budget dubbed the "skinny" budget proposed many cuts to different programs. One of the most commonly used example of a program that would be cut was the program Meals on Wheels. However this budget would not directly cut funding to the program as it is not a federal program, but as USA today says in their article Here's the Truth about Meals on Wheels in Trump's Budget , "The majority of Meals on Wheels programs get most of their federal funding though the Administration for Community Living, an agency of the Department of Health Services that serves the elderly and disabled." As this bill was passed the impacts will start to be seen this year, as the budget starts to take effect. Because of these changes recipients of care from Meals on Wheels may start to lose the benefits that they have received in the past, but the organization always takes do