{"id":7441,"date":"2020-10-28T16:47:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:48:01","slug":"cape-town-almost-ran-out-of-water-heres-how-it-averted-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/cape-town-almost-ran-out-of-water-heres-how-it-averted-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town almost ran out of water. Here’s how it averted the crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Cape Town almost ran out of water. Here's how it averted the crisis<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Cape Town\u2019s water crisis got so bad last year that there were competitions to see who could wash their shirts<\/a> the least. Restaurants and businesses were encouraging people not to flush<\/a> after going to the toilet. The city was just 90 days away from turning off the taps.<\/p>

A year on, the South African city\u2019s parched dams are now over 80% full<\/a>. Water use restrictions have been relaxed. And Day Zero \u2013 the point at which Cape Town\u2019s municipal water supply would be shut off \u2013 never came to pass.<\/p>

Having been threatened by one of the worst-ever drought-induced municipal water crises, residents became water-wise.<\/p>

A city united<\/strong><\/p>

In a dry climate, with rapid urbanization and relatively high per capita water consumption, Cape Town had all the makings of a water crisis. In 2018, after three years of poor rainfall, the city announced drastic action was needed to avoid running out.<\/p>

Reducing demand was a key priority. The City of Cape Town worked to get residents and businesses on board with a host of water-saving initiatives. People were instructed to shower for no longer than two minutes. A campaign with the slogan \u201cIf it\u2019s yellow, let it mellow\u201d promoted flushing the toilet only when necessary. And the use of recycled water<\/a> \u2013 so-called greywater \u2013 was also pushed.<\/p>

This article originally appeared on The World Economic Forum<\/a> on 23 August 2019 – read the full article<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town almost ran out of water. Here’s how it averted the crisis Cape Town\u2019s water crisis got so bad last year that there were competitions to see who could wash their shirts the least. Restaurants and businesses were encouraging people not to flush after going to the toilet. The city was just 90 days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"edition":[],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futurebuild.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}