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Leopantro:
you mean it is the government's job to supply water to it's citizens?

well, what do you know!!

isn't capetown surrounded by water?

You need serious desalination plants to achieve that and they do not come cheap.

Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps?

In 10 weeks engineers will turn off water for a million homes as this South African city reacts to one-in-384-year drought. The rich are digging boreholes, more are panic-buying bottled water, and the army is on standby

by Jonathan Watts in Cape Town

The head of Cape Town’s disaster operations centre is drawing up a plan he hopes he never has to implement as this South African city on the frontline of climate change prepares to be the first in the world to turn off the water taps.

“We’ve identified four risks: water shortages, sanitation failures, disease outbreaks and anarchy due to competition for scarce resources,” says Greg Pillay. “We had to go back to the drawing board. We were prepared for disruption of supply, but not a no-water scenario. In my 40 years in emergency services, this is the biggest crisis.”

The plan – being drawn up with the emergency services, the military, epidemiologists and other health experts – is geared towards Day Zero, the apocalyptically named point when water in the six-dam reservoir system falls to 13.5% of capacity.

It’s going to be terrifying for many people when they turn on the tap and nothing comes out
Christine Colvin
At this critical level – currently forecast for 16 April – piped supply will be deemed to have failed and the city will dispatch teams of engineers to close the valves to about a million homes – 75% of the city.

“It’s going to be terrifying for many people when they turn on the tap and nothing comes out,” says Christine Colvin, freshwater manager for WWF and a member of the mayor’s advisory board.

In place of piped water, the city will establish 200 water collection points, scattered around the city to ensure the legally guaranteed minimum of 25 litres per person per day within 200 metres of every citizen’s home.

This will be a major burden on municipal coffers. The estimated cost of installing and running the new system for three months is 200m rand (£12m). Instead of selling water, it will be given away for free, which will mean R1.4bn in lost revenue.

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“The total city budget is R40bn, so this won’t destroy us, but it will cause severe discomfort,” says the deputy mayor, Ian Neilson, who adds that he has not had a bath at home for a year. “A bigger concern is to ensure the economy doesn’t collapse. We need to keep business and jobs going … Clearly, there could be a severe impact. It depends on how long it continues.”

Neilson stresses that Day Zero can be avoided. A lowering of pipe pressure and a public information campaign to conserve water have cut the city’s daily water consumption from 1,200 million litres to 540 million litres. If this can be pushed down another 25%, the taps should stay open to the start of the rainy season in May.

But this is no guarantee. Three consecutive years of drought have made a mockery of normal seasonal patterns.

“We’re in a critical transition period where the past is no longer an accurate guide to the future,” says Colvin.

She illustrates her point with two maps. One – based on historical data – shows the water risk of Cape Town is green, meaning it is among the lowest in South Africa. The other – based on future climate projections – is almost the complete opposite, with the city located in a middle of an alarming red heat zone.

“What we didn’t know was when that future would arrive,” says Colvin. “Businesses and investors have heard the long-term projections but they haven’t heard the starting gun go off. If this drought can pull the trigger then that could be a good thing. If this is seen as a pressure test for the new normal, it will help us to adapt.”

The government has struggled to keep pace. Plans to make the city more resilient to climate change by diversifying the water supply with boreholes and desalination plants were not due to kick in until after 2020. But the climate has moved faster, bringing a drought so severe it would usually be expected only once every 384 years.


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Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/03/day-zero-cape-town-turns-off-taps

Ibrahimanees:
As far as I know, only US use warthog

I was trying to remind Tdayof that since he doesn't like guns he could start by admiring the Warthog which is a flying gun.

What good are books when you are not reading them...

Congratulations man now you don turn man.

tdayof:
Thanks.

As you see me so, I know less about guns. The just fascinate me guns don't kill people

What about an A10-Warthog it's basically a flying Vulcan Cannon

AuroraB:
Ode ni e
Zagbuokwe onwe gi na Doctor

you dey mind that fake ass bum

I'm confused

Something Wong!

tdayof:
Pakistan trained. These guys should stop having those flags on their kit at the war front.

Funny thing is it was printed on the shirt, they got this during their training and should have been given new gear on arrival back to naija...having a flag from Pakistan even though we know we should have trained with the Indians (respect) tells alot about our military.

Is this news?

Don't know him...

tdayof:
Thanks.

As you see me so, I know less about guns. The just fascinate me guns don't kill people

It has a 4800mi/hr (Mack 2) speed and a 100mile range best for coastal defence and e no go tey we go see am for aerial platforms...

tdayof:
Coil gun or rail gun.

They are the same device ...a rail gun is just an electromagnetically powered weapon system. Hence the "coil"...the projectile is propelled along a railing.

tdayof:
I just want the deal cancelled. It's better to get more jf17 through the Chinese directly with the money and wait for less than 2 years for delivery.

I don't think our policy makers understand the urgent need of a potent aerial COIN platform.

tdayof:
Looks like a supply ship sef. I haven't even heard anything about it.

17 days countdown to the Tucano deadline

Nah Tucano this man dey calculate...I don even delete am from my memories.

Unrelated: Could China be arming their ships with railguns? Tdayof can you verify this?...

[img]https://tctechcrunch2011.files./2018/02/du8_uuovqaau-5p.jpg[/img]
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/02/sure-looks-like-china-has-a-ship-mounted-railgun/

benny4wax:
One good advice for you, and I am not being rude, don't condemn what you are ignorant about or you may just live and die a poor lonely man.

Shalom.

it's a scam get rich on your own...

benny4wax:
What will it cost you to be a part of this great opportunity. What do you stand to gain from grabbing this great opportunity. How would you know if you don't ask?

Swiss golden pays my bills.
0-8-1-4-6-5-0-7-9-6-6

You know that thing is a scam and the metal in that picture is steel with goldplating right?

I wonder what happened to those container loads of weapons seized at Lagos Ports from Iran and what happened afterwards...

That was "fast"...

#GuinessWorldRecordBreakers

Someone on NL once asked why he'd have to waste 6mb downloading songs from the "splitsquares" when he used to use 3...

Mario Winans much?

CoolAmbience:
The Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria's Armed Forces has spoken. Who are you please?

His Royal Uncleness Most Reverend Brother Uncle Zuma 1 of Nairaland

What is this one saying and who's the oponu that created this thread?

Those arrested with Kalashnikovs were not Fulani herdsmen but local state government vigilantes...

They've been rescued ooo

https://www.dw.com/en/miners-rescued-from-beatrix-gold-mine-in-south-africa/a-42410573