Day Zero Set For Cape Town
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 t...