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2018-01-18 Africa Subsaharan

Drought-stricken Cape Town, SA could run out of water by April's 'day zero'

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Posted by Pappy 2018-01-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Sounds like South Africa's answer to Democrats running California into the ground.

Posted by Raj 2018-01-18 00:42|| 2018-01-18 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Nature has this charming way of showing what "Sustainable" really, positively, seriously means: you shouldn't build a metropolis on this site.

Posted by magpie 2018-01-18 01:09|| 2018-01-18 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 There is mention of underground water so why haven't they drilled wells? It's the quickest solution.

Posted by 3dc 2018-01-18 01:21|| 2018-01-18 01:21|| Front Page Top

#4 There is mention of underground water so why haven't they drilled wells? It's the quickest solution.

See #1. above.

This is NOT a new problem. Why should the Kaffir government in Johannesburg give a wit about grumbling Cape whites or their water challenges ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-18 01:55|| 2018-01-18 01:55|| Front Page Top

#5 So, Besoeker, it sounds like Cape Town needs a William Mulholland?

Posted by 3dc 2018-01-18 07:00|| 2018-01-18 07:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Water theft, waste, crumbling reservoirs and dam infrastructure add to the misery. Luckily, there is still time to blame the former apartheid regime.

An unnamed white South African said this regarding the nation’s current situation:

When the ANC were handed the country on a silver platter (so to speak) 20 years ago there were over 1,020,000 farms successfully feeding its nation and exporting food – feeding the world. Today there are a mere 12,000 productive farms left.. and for the first time in it’s history S.Africa now is forced to import food to feed it’s own citizens. As I write, I just received word that in the Western Cape there is only enough water to last for 2 weeks! This is due to utter incompetence of ANC government blaming previous government for not building enough dams and not building what they did large enough. UGH! 22,000 dams were built by previous government were as a mere 2000 were built by ANC! When ANC became the new governors of the only country in Black Africa with decent infrastructure, resources etc, they opened the borders to every neighboring African country which flooded S.Africa draining the natural resources and bringing their crimes with them.

No matter how “oppressive” apartheid was, at least it kept the trains running on time, your water flowing and, most importantly, kept you alive.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-18 07:49|| 2018-01-18 07:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Just need to get a flotilla to push one of those ice sheets we're always being told are breaking off Antarctica to the Cape.

Posted by Ulith Borgia4740 2018-01-18 07:55|| 2018-01-18 07:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Or, stop flushing.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-18 09:42|| 2018-01-18 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 it sounds like Cape Town needs a William Mulholland?

Say what you will about the White Man, but he knows how to do goods, services and infrastructure.

Posted by SteveS 2018-01-18 11:16|| 2018-01-18 11:16|| Front Page Top

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