“These recent rains are not nearly enough as we are still in a drought crisis. The drought conditions are the New Normal for Cape Town as a water-scarce region. To adapt to the New Normal, we have to change our behaviour drastically to save water while we still have water to be saved.”
The City says too many “stubborn” people were not listening to warnings to use less water.
“The rainfall has made a very small impact on our dam levels. The fact that we are still 143 million litres over our 500 million litre target per day means that those who are not reducing consumption are playing with everyone’s future in Cape Town.”
The City said dam storage levels were at 27,4%, but usable water was only at 17,4%. This time last year dam levels were at 47,6%.
“We are in a dire situation and Level 4B water restrictions require all water users to use less than 87 litres of water per person per day in total, irrespective of whether they are at home, work or elsewhere.”