It is raining here right now. That is a most preferable sight for us here in Cape Town. We thank God for every drop that falls to the dry ground in this drought. This is the season that it always rains but we can see that it has been raining less than normal. Our dams are currently at 27% which gives us 17% of water usage. That is not enough. A lot of people think we are out of the worst of the drought when they see the rain but as it was reported to us last week: We need 3 full rain seasons to catch up and get back to normal. This is insane.
I have not been drinking tab water since March. We are encouraged if to take very short showers. Some people use this type of weather now to run out and wash their cars. And yet there are still so many people that have high water usage. I just heard on the radio that the City of Cape Town is contemplating to switch of our water at certain times.3 Years ago we had shortage in electricity. We had load shedding where at different times different areas were without electricity for 2 hours to safe. Back then, there were people
that said we would have water problems like that soon. Well here we are.
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