City wants your comment on new strategy to drought-proof Cape Town
15 February 2019
After a drought almost left Capetonians queuing for a mere few litres of water per person per day, the City of Cape Town wants your comment on a proposed R5.4bn strategy to avoid another possible "Day Zero".
The proposed strategy, if accepted after public comment, presents ways of meeting growing demand from ground water, water reuse and desalination over the next 10 years.
The goal will be to increase available water capacity by more than 300 million litres a day and to avoid hefty future water prices.
Current usage is hovering between the 600 million to 700 million a day mark - around half of what consumption used to be before the drought set in.