How Cape Town's Residents Are Surviving the Water Crisis-For Now | National Geographic
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2018
- Cape Town, South Africa's water crisis has hit everyone in the city, as restrictions make daily life a challenge.
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The profound water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa is affecting the rich and poor, tourists and hosts. In this short doc produced by the German political advocacy group Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Tadzio Müller demonstrates just what it means to live on 50 liters (13.2 gallons) of water per day. In a city where the underprivileged already faced insufficient water resources, the middle class, the government, environmentalists, and engineers are all focused on how to get by-and how to prevent this disaster in the future. But, as Müller notes, current trends mean similar shortages could arise in other places around the world.
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Cape Town residents must now live with just 50 liters each day, which is barely enough for a shower. What about resource management do you think we can learn from South Africa's situation?
National Geographic shower with buckets. Actually saves so much water.
Humanity needs to wake up and realize we're in this together and that the little worlds we made for ourselves will all mutually be destroyed if we don't humble ourselves and cooperate beyond surface level niceties and delusional supremacy paradigms. Americans won't realize the global privilege they have until it's gone and when that moment comes no amount of retrospect will save us. Good outcomes come when you use the resources you have NOW.
20 years ago "BEYOND 2,000" reported from Australia a recycling water system that only utilizes BACTERIAS and reverse osmosis to purify water in households, BUT SINCE THEM, NO MORE NEWS ABOUT IT, it just dissappear from media... What happened?
National Geographic what about the genocide in South Africa?
IOozeAwesomeness i just answer your question why
what is not mentioned is the poor infrastructure of the waterworks in Cape Town . Million litres of fresh water is wasted bc leaking water pipes and other infrastructure problems !
This is really sad. I hope the government and experts take a positive working plan to resolve this issue. 50 liters a day is just too little for any good use, except for urgent necessities. I hope the people of Cape Town stand strong in facing this crisis. Thanks National Geographic for sharing.
Azliana Lyana You see, in Africa, the words "government" and "resolve" never go together
Thanks for your supportive comment, Azlian 😊.
As a Cape Town resident, Im able to make due with 50 litres per day, however, my house mate and I supplement our drinking, teeth brushing and food prep water with Newlands spring water 😏
We use grey water to flush the toilet, etc.
Water tank to capture rain water. It is possible.
Dominic Schunke i took a bath after swimming in the ocean, lol
I thought that's normal, it's sticky..
Santiago you are very riiight ;)
Azliana Lyana in mexico my grandparents make do with about 5 gal or 18 liters a day, sometimes less. So its not impossible with 50 liters. People just forgot how to use water, its sad.
Build a Desalination plant. An Aircraft carrier can produce 400,000 gallons of fresh water per day. Build a land-based one.
Jimmie Lovett they're building one, but because they started it a bit too late, it's unclear whether or not it'll be completed in time before day zero, plus, the sa government making it difficult for them to get the needed funding (last time i heard about it), saying the cape town gov is making this whole crisis up.
Well, I'm glad the plant is at least actually in progress. Hope it gets finished.
400,000 gallons is 1,500,000 litres. On average, with most of the population consuming 50 liters per day, Cape Town uses 500,000,000 litres per day! Do you see the dilemma here?
Jimmie Lovett says:
"Build a Desalination plant. An Aircraft carrier can produce 400,000 gallons of fresh water per day."
==
Every big boat has one.
Not clean enough for the drinking, not enough amount to be used by the crew.
It's only used for cooling the engine.
They would load the water for the human consumption at each port they stop.
It uses a lot of energy, that means promoting more climate change, which promotes more water shortage.
You can't win.
Yes, but Desalination plants are very expensive to build and run right now.
Just came back from this beautiful city. It wasn't actually as bad as they're making it seem. It is a big problem but we managed to stay under the limit quite comfortably. and now I'm back in my country and I'm continuing the short showers, the buckets, the scarce flushes. We take water for granted and there's absolutely no reason not to be careful.
instantsurgery the problem isn't the daily limit, it's day zero
instantsurgery
Thank you for your good response
Dude, crowded room, I'm sure they roll out the red carpet for the tourists.
Jeremy McReynolds yet there are MANY foreigners who come and live here for between 3 months and a half a year and they adopt all our methods of saving water, so for the tourists it is easier but for those foreigners living here, they make sure they comply to our ways of living
No mention that the South African government refused assistance from the Israeli's to help solve the water crisis in Cape Town.
Greg Brance well it was only their desalination plant blue prints but there are many models out there and it was really about what’s going on in Israel.
Dear "H J" : What's going on on ISRAEL? A yijadist group against the only Democratic Country in Middle East: ISRAEL.
Whats going on in AFRICA? A yijadist group called Boko Haram; blacks killing blacks... But...
Why declining help or advice from ISRAEL?
Because ISRAEL cannot be controlled by intolerant Yihadists, and the Yihadists HATES stronger than they LOVE their own people.
wgt
Dear "Greg B" : Thanks for giving HOPE comming from the only oasis in Middle East; ISRAEL.
wgt
William Garayua girl. What exactly are you saying?
great comment...or as boers sat greeat koment.
This is gonna happen at many other places as well...We humans have been so irresponsible in using the natural resources...This day had to come and it may get worse because still many of us do not understand the gravity of the situation. the damage we have done to the ecosystem and environment will come to haunt us in a big way.
THANK YOU for some proper reporting. More of this style please.
In Sydney we have a desalination plant designed to provide us with water in the event of severe drought, which has occurred many times before. Its not in use always, just there is we need it. Although it costs alot to maintain.
How wonderful mother earth is, her strategy of educating humanity through discipline is unfolding. I mean this not as a personal attack on Cape Towns residents, but mother earth is not interested in who or where, as unlike the average person, mother earth sees us all equally.
I've experienced water disruption in my state that lasted almost a week, it ended a few days ago, but to me, I got to experience what these people is going through now, and I cannot imagine what it is for them to have to suffer day zero for such a long period.
The government should stop being corrupt and get their act together.
Mr. King Kitty Corruption isn't the issue in this case.
Incompetence more than corruption.
It's not political. In this case it's something natural
Nice information
The same thing happened in Delhi, India, and water supply from other states was given to it.
"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink. "
Moreover cape town is known as cape of good hope, so it will be able to survive this.
Cape Town has no water but is hosting cricket matches on the contrary
Actually all local club cricket has been cancelled until the drought is over, it's too dangerous to play if the fields can't be maintained.
Exactly what I was wondering
good video m8
2000 years ago Rome didn't even have this problem, bravo South Africa.
This is Soo sad
While the situation in Cape Town is sad indeed, we hope this video will encourage individuals, communities and governments to think about how to better manage our natural resources.
cAn wE gEt 50 LiKes?
"We've been living in a day zero fot many years"
Sad how people only pay attention when matters affect them directly.
Is the ANC to blame?
YUP
The BDS movement is to blame. They boycotted Israel out of SA. A country which is amazing at dealing with water shortages and one which is willing to help
In a nutshell Please send a link to the article?
Partially at least. Corruption and incompetence
Lol yall dunderheads do know the cape is run by the DA ryt?
Another question would be :
How Boers life situation in South Africa ? ( *!* )
The greatest teacher ( nature ) giving her lessons.............
be strong CapeTown..
While cape town is drying out, Bandung, Indonesia is having floods. Is there a way for us to send our coulds to africa and for africa fo send their lights to SEA? Im joking but seriously, is it possible for is to send water?
The places with more water in South Africa are sending to Cape Town but I dont know if you could send all the way from Indonesia
We had a drought in Puerto Rico 2 years ago. The government funded the "planting" of clouds, artificially generating clouds so that the rain fell on the reservoirs. Also the water supply was controlled, 2 days with running water and 2 days without it.
Jaime, I'm not sure I'd drink water from chemical engineered clouds :D
email me water pls
I saw what appeared to be many houses with corrigated iron roofs. These could be turned into rainwater harvesters to provide water for general washing and biointensive kitchen gardens.
Very caring.
The Cape Town's government should take further action in growing up a natural resources and i.e a trees🌲
Thank you for noticing us.
In the next few decades when desalination plants become common place and cost effective, no coastal nation has to worry about water anymore.
Landlocked countries have to buy/import water... so that would be expensive.
Why don’t we use reclaimed water for our toilets ? 🤔. That is a good question
Cape Town already uses reclaimed water. Water gets cleaned at the Faure treatment plant. For more than twenty years now. Now everybody does.
Already happening here, it’s called grey water (reusable water) and black water (non-reusable water)
Why not use sea water for toilets? Cape Town has plenty.
Its so sad to see that suffering. But I hope these bad days will disappear soon.
There are things that we do take granted... every single day.
in to all the Cape Town residents,holds on guys it only six months left. in September this year God have promised to give u rain which will be enough for you to live your life's normal again.(4rm Mr Mpambosi)
They knew about this for 20 yrs but didn't build desalination plants
No, instead they build a massive new dam at Franschoek.
Do you know how expensive they are to build and run???
The BDS movement is to blame. They boycotted Israel out of SA. A country which is amazing at dealing with water shortages and one which is willing to help
The importance of water. One thing I lear during my travels in Senegal. Here in Europe we took everthing for granted. I hope everything's gonna be alright. Love.
Now I feel so thankful that I live in India where Water is in limitless amoumts due to the Himalayas amd our sacred rivers (which we should stop polluting if we are to continue this privilege)
With all that money in the bank, the country is brought down to its knees just by lack of water. This is nature telling us, "Take me seriously."
I feel very sorry for them, I hope God will bless them
Why not set up plants to purify sea water and use it? The quantity of sea water is huge. It seems like the lines "water, water everywhere not a drop to drink".
It would Definitely Rain This Year For sure! Lets Pray
this year in north africa morocco and algeria the rain never stop and all morocco dams are full of water yeeeeeeeeeey
Where was the government to prevent such crisis from happening? and awaring its citizens about the condition the city is going through? They seem surprised!!!
wow
How frightening this video is!
When is day 0
Hard.
I live in Cape Town and save water every single day in all ways . Also what they heard is that day Zero will be postponed to next year , is it true ?🌏💧Another thing is there is such a lot of dams here and we gave a lot of water when the other cities needed but theyre not helping us know that we gave up all our water I hope they make a plan 🙅
Caitlyn Wagner CW Asking for what is happening in your own city to some random people in UA-cam won't give accurate results. I bet there is plenty of local newspapers, magazines, radio and TV news, you can also google your city's name and click "news." You could ask someone around you. When a big city is going through such a crisis, the local media is bound to report on it. If you don't trust it, check international media, and see if there is coincidence. Reliable information exists.
María Martínez thanks
The news the last few days has been hinting towards it, if we get early winter rains. But the experts reminded us in the news to continue saving, as Day Zero can still happen... today it's cloudy outside, and I'm really hoping for some rain.
Caitlyn Wagner CW
Hi i live in cape town.and today i read that day zero has been defeated for 2018
Caitlyn Wagner CW can you not buy bottled water in the shops.
Capetown and Bengaluru , India ; same situation.....under ground water recharge is must
Biggest problem, too many people in an urban area. Move out to the country and become self sustaining. More small towns and less mega cities!
Actually, most cities are far more efficient at using resources per larger number of people.
Not that your solution isn't a viable option, because it is and more should.
How about the solar irrigation project for the agriculture. I hope it works?
they acting like the world (especially Africa) has never had a drought.
Change will only come when something is also effecting the wealthiest in society...😞
My town river is running useless in to sea ,would have been thinking that this running fresh water (really I mean u can drink it without filtering) could have saved south africans,I am feeling very bad about it.
The add i had for this video is literally someone cutting open a plastic swimming pool...
I think that they should plant more trees , and also trees🌲 are the main cause of rainfall
I feel very sorry for them.
After one wet winter last year, California is back in drought. The aquifer in the central valley has subsided by 2 meters in places. And yet we are still growing rice in the desert?
Politicians blame citizens being wasteful...don't talk BS!!! Politicians have known from about this turn of events from around 1991.They have done nothing to prevent this,funds were even made available.Where is that funds???? now you blame the citizens? nice try!!!This is my short version on this issue!!!!
So much water around the city but too little to use.
I live in Cape Town. I shower every third day, brush teeth with a cup of water, wash my hair every three weeks, use dish water to flush my John and wear my clothes three days running. And yet I know that some people reading this will say “Dirty woman”.
#future of every one
...If we didn't confirm a birth control
So scary
Meanwhile we are having extreme flooding in Kenya at least atm
We can also help to influence where people live, lower population density helps just about every problem out there.
May God help them. 🙏🏻
watched this after having songkran festival in thailand ....
We're going extinct.
Hello! That one sentence sums it up. Three additional people per second. Finite resources. People need to learn math.
That's good news
Looking for an update for 2021.
I have a REALLY good idea. Now hear me out:
Put VALVES on those public water fountains where people are filling them up. It's like more than HALF of the water just goes on the ground.
this is really sad
Chennai is facing such a thing right now in 2019
What about the Rugby players that play Stormers in Cape Town in Super Rugby?
What is their government doing? Most of the fresh water usage is for industry and agriculture. Domestic use is much much less!
Please national geographic start a program for indian cities, people are unaware of the imminent danger and are misusing water and all natural resources
We need to start putting in smart toilet systems where a lot less water is consumed!
That shower in the beginning is a waste of time, some water ends up on the user, some in the bucket the rest disappears down the drain. Shower in the bath with a hand shower, direct the water where it's needed, then you can wash (properly) with as little as 10l, which can then be used to fill the toilet cistern. Desalinated water has its own issues, one need only research the health problems currently being experienced in Israel after decades of drinking sterile water, devoid of any minerals.
Desalination plants are the best idea
Cape town made the start hope the rest world learn and became aware of environmental saftey
if water is so scarce, then y are they letting it just flow without any concern?
I am talking about the time they are filling, there daily requirment of whatsoever litre cap set.
We all have learn and teach how to sustainable use the natural resources, to make mother earth recover .
Was this sudden. They should have seen this coming!
What a shame.
Scary™
What is happening to domestic and wild animals? Is Cape Town the only area in South(ern) Africa which is sort of potable water? Any coordination and sharing?
I just recently watched a video of fun for Louis and they had rented a home that had a pool in cape town....so maybe pools should go if they need to save water.
Crystal Brandy
No pools are allowed to be used.or the resident could be fined and so on
Yep, I knew what it was to have a bath with a bucket of water, not there, in another city long time ago.
But the guy said there is plenty of water underground, and the desalination plants haven't been built yet. Well, what's the problem? Who's lack of planning is this?
There's never a 2,000 year old Roman engineer around when you need one.
Meanwhile it rains everyday where I live. Thank the gods, my family is blessed. Not much food though. Plenty of internet so I hope nature molds my children to have the ability to eat radio waves or atleast get energy from photosynthesis.
This looks like viral marketing for the next Fallout game.
Do you guys think that governments should increase laws to break down on water usage?
South African should put conditions on housing/building developers by forcing them to also include treatment plants in their blueprints, meaning water used in the toilet, bathroom should be reused after being recycled in their respective local treatment plants... That way billions of litres will be saved daily......
Surprise- in 2021- this is happening in Taichun Taiwan.. so here we are and more over my family is from fish hoek
How can we help?
Let me tell you one thing that I've learnt by living here.
Don't take long showers for granted
Absolutely it's true only 3 percent of earths water is pure water and we hardly have 1 percent of fresh water available as rest is in ice caps so profoundly there is need of resource management so that we can collectively achieve our goals
I m so saddest
Couldnt we find a way to transfer the ocean water to ... useable form ?? Then we could use them ..
Might be a stupid question .....
Actually we can, but in small scale. if we talk about city of course its hard and the price is very expensive.
The problem with desalinization (the proper term for the process of removing salt from water.) Is that it requires A) a lot of energy or large solar arrays that are both expensive. B) The process currently creates almost always a sludge/water mix called a brine. The problem with this mixture is that its salt content is so high you cant release it into the ocean or fresh water. Also if I recall correctly the energy to transfer the water mix into a usable state is somewhat high. You could use the salts in a lot of industries problem is making it separate. Bottom line we need to curb our overall usage of clean water in developed countries.
They do this stuff in Spain, but on the scale for tourists and not for such a big town like cape Town.
Another problem with transferring ocean water is that if machines are placed to transfer water, you're sucking up the homes of local fish and organisms. Last time I checked, water turbines weren't working because they were killing fish. Same thing with wind turbines, killing too many birds.
Prince .R
İt is indeed possible; but this amounts would be extremely expensive; more expensive than the corrupt South African Government's capable of paying
Is it 50 liters per person ? Or per household .
Please look into this water problem by government and engineers for the better society NO WATER NO LIFE so pls help to the cape town people.
They are wasting water even now
Must be cutting trees and no plantation would be the reason ??? For such a pathetic situation