Cape of Storms to Come | "They were warned"
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- What happens when a city runs out of municipal water? Models are clear on the severity: the tanking of the economy, the destruction of sewerage infrastructure, outbreaks of violence, the spreading of disease. As Day Zero threatens to approach the City of Cape Town, public consumption isn’t the only problem. Administrators both local and national are staring down a humanitarian crisis.
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In the western world, that's a good one
3:35 didn't know the western world looked like that
I was wondering about that too.
well they used to be part of the western world same as Aus. Now its a failed state, no doubt about it, it'll only get worse due to the tribal mentality of blacks. Whites still have a degree of power but not enough to stem the tidal wave of stupidity.
Ah yes South Africa, the pride of the Western World. If asked to give a snapshot of what the West is like, what better country than SOUTH AFRICA?
They would rather invest in eToll than providing water. When you enroll for government positions, you should enroll to serve your people and not your wallet.
DatBro If you voted for anc don't complain.
Yes, corruption money, this video is trying to cover up, all the people in this video are a bunch of cunts milking the cow, ofcorse they will protect the name of this corrupt fucking government.... those are the people that should be removed from ZA or the face of the planet
Bingo~! We have a winner. There's just no way the capitalist cut throat system we have worldwide today is sustainable. I say send the greedy out to Mars to live and work, but first make them pay to ship the nuclear matter and other dangerous waste on a rocket to give us a 2nd chance on Earth to live and work right.
I got fined for washing my car with one bucket of water but there are car washes that are using water on a large scale and nothing is being done
The dams in question have silted up excessively over time. Now is the opportune time, with water levels so low, to remove (dry dredge) the accumulated sediments and sand and restore and even increase their carrying capacity. The silt/sand deposit probably has a commerical value as building and construction material. Intellectual capacity in water infrastructure engineering , long term planning ability and preventive maintenance is urgently required. The political masters of Cape Town and the Western Cape are hell bent on economic and business growth (the skyline is littered with construcituon cranes) but dont appear to have connected growth and its concommitant demand for service - such as water. More water. The National Water and Sanitation Department is in total disarray and the trickle of bungling and corruption has developed into a deluge. We must change and rehabiitate it. We, being the public, the people of South Africa.
Kris Marais you might as well be speaking gibberish if you actually said that in a government meeting ? they would have been thinking Eish !! sounds like too much work and which family member would even be able to fulfill a tender that we cannot understand or explain.. LOL
mindfcuk101
lol, i was thinking the same thing....sounds like to much work...lets go steal someones water
Well, I have talked about this a lot and what do they, that is the DWA&S say? "We do not need more dams but more water from the sky"!
Apartheids' Bantu Education Policy utterly succeeded.
You cannot simply make the dams bigger or deeper by removing the sand therein, the dam walls were built to withstand only the amount of water that could be held at the time of construction. If you want a deeper dam then you basically need to build the entire dam from scratch. This would take a long time, during which there would obviously be NO water. What we need are alternate sources of water.
Running a terrorist gang doesnt qualify you for running a country.
The difference is whites have evolved, blacks haven't!
+Louis Kriel
Absolutely!!!
Nakasasama i see apartheid returning...
In Mumbai, India, the municipality starts rationing water months before hitting zero. Like it was a bad rain year, we don't urge the citizens to cut down usage to say 500 megaliters per day (it never works). The municipality cuts supply every day at that amount! People learn, start saving water, start using reasonably and we sail through! The municipality starts slow. Like just 1-2% cut per day, then keeps on increasing to 10+% of regular consumption. It works, Cape should try this method! Our municipality is smart and knows asking people to do it doesn't work! You have to make them do it!
Shah, reducing pressure will pop the pipes when pressure is re-introduced. We have old infrastructure. I do agree, reduce water to a trickle. PS I am Cape Town. We will know in a couple of months. Normally rain by Easter.
Capitalism has a very simple method for working this out which people from India and South Africa would not know about. Increase the price of water. Automatically rations water to the most needed purposes. It skips the middle-man who will be price-gouging when your rationing runs out.
Kevin Smith Capitalism will NOT work in third world countries, as 90% connections are illegal! In my area there are 3000 houses, 7 have legal water connections. Same is for electricity!
There's something called a sea water filtration system, but the government decided that failing the creation of several Nuclear Power Plants are more important.
Dd Gg what are you saying ? The SA goverment is under black rule , as you put it.
Sea water filtration is stupid expensive. It would not be a worthwhile investment, better expropriate land
Roger Parsons & Michel Muller, you need to wake up and take the blame along with the other officials in Cape Town. You were told 26 years ago to build dams and no one listened. You are right. "There is no energy to fight or blame" but you are STILL RESPONSIBLE! Several dams could have been built and we would have been ok! OR A MAJOR PIPELINE could have been built from those parts of the country where there is a lot of rain! IT IS YOUR FAULT! The Cape Town City Council!
SA, one big Detroit.
IM The Whole Man lol what a great description! How bout this? SA the next Rhodesia!!!!
Hey a****** man I live 45 minutes south of Detroit off the st. Clair River more water passes by my house in 1 minute then goes by yours in a whole lifetime and I don't even know where you live but I pretty much guarantee you that's a fact
casco rick is all that water to flush Detroilet.
Maybe things are looking up down there though the brothers elected their first White mayor in like 50 years and he's doing a hell of a job who would have tunk! Oh and they reelected him he's on his second term
casco rick they probably think he’s gonna gib dem free stuff
You better get some desalinization plants up and fast.
SKMC69 I really hope they bring enough water in man.
Ruben Alexander - the amount they'll bring is minimal compared to demand. I read that there're about 8 plants in the works, each supplying a couple million litres of water per day. The demand is somewhere around 600 million, WITH restrictions in place. Basically without a deluge of rain we're fucked.
It will go out on tender and the government will just commit more fraud
sorry, the government spent all your money already, they are broke as fuck, so now they are shifting the blame from themself and telling you to get ready for shit!
then they have the wrong company building the plants.........it should only take one desalination plant to provide Cape town with 600 million litres of water a daydo you have a web page that says the plants under construction only make a few million a day?
Too many people. Rapid population growth is the main problem.
Well done ANC... well done...
It's easy to say "now is not the time for blame" and yes, it's not because of the dire state we're currently in, however had this been the ANCs causing the DA would be quick to lay blame and make all sorts of noise. All of that aside the city and the province have taken far too long to implement harsh restrictions, golf courses are still watering their greens, swimming pools are still being filled, gardens are still being watered, you just drive through some of the more affluent areas and see how many beautifully green lawns there are to know that people aren't adhering to restrictions. Water pressure should have been reduced from the beginning of the year if not sooner, it's time people using over their allotted amount are fined heavily! The truth of the matter is that they didn't want to lose popularity by being the "mean parent" and putting a stop to this frivolous wastage that is still going on.
You only speak the truth right here
ANC and DA always look for reason to criticise, which is pretty well standard practice in a democracy. What use is an opposition if it doesn't oppose? But don't make a mistake; the DA's fault is that it didn't seek private funding for their desalinization plants, because they are going to have a battle getting it from Water Affairs. The government has permitted the fouling of major waterways and the silting up of dams countrywide, so the ANC is definitely to blame, just like they were to blame for the "too little, too late" response to the drought of 2015-2016, and for the raiding of drought relief funds by their own officials. Those who continue to vote ANC do so to the detriment of the entire country. The current regime is not committed to its electorate; if you or anyone else thinks it is, take off your rose-tinted glasses and remove the perfumed plugs from your noses and smell the sewage. Any government which can view with equanimity the impoverishment of an entire province in the hope of regaining power is not worth the toilet paper in the parliamentary loos.
Great content. Thank you.
Running out of water on the blue planet :-)
They could harvest the fog, the rain, the ground water and the evaporation from the sea around them. It's a man made crisis.
There is no rain, you dipshit! The dams rely on rain.
Political science, destabilization, fear, program people to domesticate them.... fuck this government, we need a white nelson Mandela to show this government they are not strong and hopefully most the nations and different cultures in this country are not pussies enough to allow such a person be labelled as a terrorist and take over this government and make proper plans that are not based on greed and survival
Ann V we do have technology to get water from sources he mentioned though so no need to get angry because of your ignorance (Not knowing)
Ann V : White man made the dams too small? ;-)
In a drought, you'll have no fog and no rain.
California: "man we had a pretty tough drought"
Cape Town: *hold my beer*
Ray De Vries says it clearly at 2:37. The City's saving initiatives were overshadowed by the good rains of 2013/4 when the likes of the farmers et al used a lot less ..... go forward to 2015/6 with two dry winters in a row, the City still enjoyed the usual water restriction tariffs like they always have going as far back as 2001/4, the truth of it all is water has always been a seen as a revenue stream to them, fact.
We paid premium prices for water for over a decade from a network of dams that were essentially paid off since before 1994.The only new dam was the Berg River and that plan was probably also in place before 1994.
Revenue stream? That's only for supply. The dams - third time I'm pointing it out here - are the responsibility of central government. Understand me, I'm not excusing the DA, but the ANC has been watching this developing situation, gleefully rubbing its metaphorical hands and waiting for the ideal moment to grab the big stick. Impoverishment of a province and all its people to score political points? Does it get any lower and dirtier than that?
Yup, they are trying to cover themself, more is comming, now the money has been spent on jacobs POES Inkandlah and money is stolen for SHIT farmers being killed, electricity going up, inflation going up, black vs white properganda, the country is going to go into a big depression where they want us as a nation to be so we can have one big civil war...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here/
I am in Cape Town, while we hear there is a drought, the Day Zero is now pushed to next year. And we are going into mansoons soon!! For now we have sufficient water and need to be water conscious
For decades, Hong Kong has been successfully relying on seawater for toilet flushing. Perth has been recycling human sewage and purifying it, using state-of-the-art technology, into perfectly potable water. There are definitely viable solutions. Capetown's looming crisis sounds very much like fiscal and environmental mismanagement. They have simply failed to heed eco-planning specialists since the mid-90s. Social upheaval will inevitably result.
We are soon approaching the era of MAD MAX!!!! lawl
more like Thirst Games...
as soon as any major resource starts to dwindel we will see things fall apart quickly
honestly cant wait, i'm going to take out as many SJW's and millennial fucktards as i can
Brent Bowles he saw me!
More like Mad Marx lawl
overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
The city should not have allowed water to be privatized and allowed communities to capture rainwater.. It's only until recently when the UN recognized that clean water is a human right.. And when they tap into groundwater extraction, it can collapse without that water holding up the underground reservoir.. Where will they be then? Desalination should have already been invested in.
No wonder why SA rugby has been so bad lately, they're all dehydrated
1.Standardize water distribution receptacles.
2.Implement year round rations accounted for by a governing body.
3. Centralize distribution center and institute a routine delivery system.
4.Educate population on water conservation and DIY collection.
5. Create business model and SOPs to immediately begin allocation and budgeting of funds to erect infrastructure to support technically savvy potable water production resources i.g atmospheric water generator (AWG) or desalination.
Y'all can do it, just have to plan your success.
I live in cape town :'(
I wish I didn't have this drought 😖
Tell this to our STUPID president.... the infrastructure of SA is i tatters because of him and the ANC!
William Minnaar ik I don't like our president!
Ek het water hahahahha
Be a hero and install valves on all of those fountains.
Farming requires much more water than residential. Eventually they will have to cutoff farmers.
I live in Cape Town please help us with the drought and please pray for us
Great video. Low key fear mongering but quite realistic perspective
Nothing low key about it. Absolute horse shit actually, and full of inaccuracy.
Kyle Swartz I
There is student using a material to collect water from fog in the morning. In Africa they have a billboards that solar to provide light for the billboard and water for the towns people. The people have go to the billboard and turn on a tap for water. There is water using metal to heat the sea water to steam collecting turns to fresh water. You can reduce the temperature needed to turn water to steam by reducing the pressure in the containers.
This is happening, yet Dubai is building a mountain with man made clouds to produce more rain for a region that uses more water than avg.....
Dubai will have its fair share of issues later on, along with Saudi
Meh Dubai is actively trying to reform it's main income from Oil to other and is doing so pretty successfully. Can't say the same about Saudi as their main export seems to be Salafism and Oil
I notice that the MASSIVE influx of foreigners (Nigerians, Zimbabweans, Cameroonians, Congolese, etc - many of whom are illegally in the country) is very much downplayed as major reason for the depletion of the dams. Most of the women have a number of children too, which adds to the population explosion Cape Town has experienced. This is not a racially motivated comment in the slightest. If it were Swedes, Norwegians and Finns pouring into Cape Town I would say the same thing.
Notwithstanding this, the government should have built large scale desalination plants years ago - they were well aware of the huge influx of foreigners. Instead, they wasted billions (the arms deal, for example) on nonsense and did virtually nothing. So typical of the South African government.
I'm from Europe and did not know off this massive problem South Africa is dealing with untill now. I really hope the government and its population will take action now before it's too late and people will die!😢
Anne B. Dry over Kenya etc too! Watch video of Jim Nduruchi called Francis re Jigger Victims in Kenya!
cut down the trees they said, trees use alot of water they said... planting non indiginous is illegal. i doubt if there is a tree with a 1m circumference outside of SAPPI plantations.
Anne B. The leaders are corrupt and the people don't care.
Byron JONES I know many leaders on that continent - but not exclusively - are very corrupt and I think most people don't care, because they are poor and most off the time not well educated and therefor ignorant. You cannot allways blame them, I think. They struggle to keep their heads above water. But I do blame the corrupt leaders who rather keep the money for themselves and their family, rather than to share it with their own people. So sad. It makes me furious also. I doubt it will ever change for the good. 😔
Anne B. I was born in South Africa I left when I was 18 I have been back twice in all the time and if someone said to me I had to go back I would rather die. South Africa is a perfect example of how the end of humanity will be. life started here and the beginning of the end is happening here. We as humans need to change across the world the way we think. However south African people are very closed minded and if you don't think there is a problem then you will never try solve the problem.
I’m listening to this as it rains on me
Ya, the LEADERSHIP was warned. Now the people will suffer for their incompetence.
Aimed at the Roger Parson's comments, about not having time to blame, how dare you say that, people will die if the water is gone, companies will close, lives will be ruined, and the fact that the ANC did nothing before, as well as we all know took whatever they could for themselves, already shows the reason of this water problem.
They could have easily made some new dams going to that area if they started say 5 years ago, and WE PAY TAX FOR THESE THINGS, now people in CT have to pay more, maybe pay with thier lives even, and who will pay for the funerals?? Its just sick, and seriously some of you people "HIGHER UP" should open cases against the people in charge of water in CT for the last 10 years, possibly even against JACOB ZUMA, since there is no way he never knew about this issue, 5 years ago, its been warned for over 10 years.
Why not do something to the officials and leaders, who caused this TO GET THEM OUT THE WAY SO CT AND RSA CAN START FIXING ITSELF???
ok, South Africa is in the western world now?! hahahahahahahaaaaaa!
The City is aware that its population is growing rapidly and has been for years. In these circumstances more resources must be needed - it's a no-brainer. Very disappointed in the lack of foresight and planning on the part of the DA Government, especially in circumstances where they were warned. Start desalinating NOW!
TRACEY BABB, guess what! Water is run by the national government.
shocking, irresponsible and lackadaisical! considering the warnings were there :-(
How on earth did you know a word like that???
"No point blaming anyone...we don't have time for that"; quite a convenient position for those responsible to take. I've always learned that a problem can't actually be solved until the cause is known and understood...
Welcome to the Solar Minimum. And it is about to get worse. Less rain, less water, more eratic weather. Longer sprints, late frost and early frost. Water is critical, but food will be scarce soon too.... maybe not scarce by certainly way more expensive. Got a garden, start growing!
Why is the water at the fill-up points continuously running, and where is it going? The dams shown are completely silted up, they can't be more than 1-2m deep when 'full'!
Why are there no issues with developers and local government projects going ahead in a water crises? Mixing cement and hosing water to prep roads for compacting etc. Just because it was in their ''plans'' since a decade ago? Think on the thousands of litres saved daily there alone. The truth is the whole region, sub-sahara, is experiencing this problem and experts had warned and advised just to be ignored. I may not agree with all proposals and manner of execution...but, waiting until the last minute and then penalising citizens for governments short comings. Why complain to residents trying to water vegetables when municipalities water sports fields in the heat of the day with higher evaporation? Another major cause and we see the effect has been an influx of people from other parts moving to the cape for other reasons (crime mostly). Many players here and many factors too, but we as citizens have to come together and push for change and other ideas made heard and get engagement from all parties concerned (local government, business, NGO's and others) even when there are some initiatives already, they need more involvement and more initiative taken by all to figure out how to go forward. Shared ideas about these and related issues on how to possibly move forward in uncertain times please See: web.facebook.com/CarefreeismWP/
Raymond Vermaak Golf courses and sports grounds are being watered by specially supplied water lines from sewage treatment works. In other words, they are using the water that come from where sewage is treated, and instead of letting it flow back onto rivers or the sea, many cities have spent millions in order to construct these infrastructures.
Notice that most sports grounds and golf courses are not far from sewage treatment works.
So maybe do some research next time. The answers are there.
Previous government were not sitting on their brains you know.
Hi Michiel, unfortunatley in South Africa the situation is that most sewrage works are overloaded, outdated and mismanaged in most cases...and in cases as suggested in terms of proximaty nowhere near golf courses especially in small rural towns. They actually do empty chemical laden water back into the rivers, dams, lakes and oceans.
I agree with you my friend, there are answers out there and we need the people to engage in dialogue, plan and take action. Where the people/citizens must lead. Organise ourselves.
We are all warned..about everything.
The DA haven't filled up their pockets- learn how government structures work before you masquerade your ignorance. Municipalities have to apply to Government departments who get their mandates from Central government- and they cannot make any autonomous decisions. It is not in their power to do so. So the Dept of Water Affairs etc. is at fault, under our nonfunctional government. Municipalities countrywide have huge problems because they are not getting the support they need from Departments or Central. And people blame the Municipalities or the Mayors because they THINK they have autonomy.
FUCK the government, its more like a corrupternment
CygnusPrime Agreed, the water issue in Cape Town started back in 2004 and even further back as 2001 with drier winters. While tge savings initiatives from The City were needed, it created the notion that water restrictions during the earlier years before the current crisis were working and with these initiatives came the extra charges per kilolitre used, now on a sliding scale for residential customers. I firmly believe that quietly The City raked in countless Billions of Rands from the premuim prices between the years 2001 up until 2016 when it all fell apart and residents were forced to cut back through Level 4, 5 and now level 6 restrictions. The City will never say how much they collected over those 15 years and here lies the evil in every Government department, ANC and DA alike. We end up paying for their stuff ups into perpetuity.
DA = ANC-Lite. I don't trust any party claiming to represent all South Africans. How on earth do you represent all the conflicting values and interest groups in one single party? In the end, you turn your sails into the wind, and you only look after the interests of the majority constituency at the expense of the minority who used to be your most loyal supporters. In other words, the party serves the interest group that best serves the interest of the party. Is it then any surprise that the DA became more and more like the ANC as former ANC supporters become a larger percentage of their base? I saw this coming already in the days of Tony Leon, that's why I've never voted DA in my life.
Fortunately, we have an electoral system that favor a multi-party system, rather than the West-Minster First-past-the-post two party system: You get to vote for any party you want without risk of benefiting the ANC in the process. The electorate need to start get to know smaller parties and consider their options.
geniesolver
There is no doubt that you have your head up your arse.Those two bitches are been paid to Fuck up our beautiful city
DA only knows how to sit still and be an opposition, does not know how to get the job done...
"A well run city will never run out of water"........ But is CapeTown a well run city?
If you use 600k+ m3 of water and the supply is only 100k m3, you know where it will end.
Asking the population to reduce their usage by 80% is never going to happen. (unless you reduce the population to apartheid era numbers = forcefully relocate all residents of informal housing and put them in 'townships'. Just like was done back then.)
if it can happen in the Cape can it happen inland, same government same procrastination.
I live in Los Angeles CA, and i wish my governments would realize that we MUST help S.Africa through this because we are all in this global warmimg shit together. Which South Africa is going through other parts of the developed world will also go through. We must Help South Africa so that we may learn as much as possible when our time comes. Everyone's time will come given the current climate we must see each other as one. The sad part is that I don't see this shift in Consciousness happening 😥
Yet the best golf courses in the country are in Cape town. Just reduce luxury water use .
angela ngobe Golf courses and sports grounds are being watered by specially supplied water lines from sewage treatment works. In other words, they are using the water that come from where sewage is treated, and instead of letting it flow back onto rivers or the sea, many cities have spent millions in order to construct these infrastructures.
Notice that most sports grounds and golf courses are not far from sewage treatment works.
So maybe do some research next time before just speaking the ramblings of your feble mind.
Hi Angela, I think that we can do without any more golfcourses. In a different economy and way to mobilize better solutions keeping people employed while improving the situation is something we should strive for.
Please take a look at: web.facebook.com/CarefreeismWP/
So on the nose, Amen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jon VDM how is this on the nose?
Feel free to drink the treated sewer water that is being used to irrigate sports grounds and golf courses!
angela ngobe most golf courses use treated sewage water in the Western Cape.
It's March 2018... according to CNN the new date for when they run out of water is April 12th. This is starting to feel like Zimbabwe all over again.
A lot of blame going around. But it should be laid squarely at the feet of national government. The guy who says "they were warned", was from the national government. Dams are built by national government. ANC needs to take their heat on this.
Gauteng is actually in a far worse situation in terms of supply. They nearly ran out of water without a real drought.
This drought in the western cape is 1 in a 1000 year drought.
Richard Yea, if DA was sleeping, national government should have woke them up. But national only wakes up now.
wasn't the city of Cape Town warned that this situation was coming?...........if so the city is to blame
Scary. The ones to be hurt the worst are the poorest who often times do not have many options.
its always the poorest,while the politicians get their bottled water served to them.
Easy to solve - start charging for water according to its value. Currently, water delivered to premisis in Cape Town is virtually free, and yet it is far more scarce and critical than products such as Coca Cola or petrol. In a situation of demand far outstripping supply, in any sane market, the price must go up, until usage reduces to a point where the supply is sustainable. Simple solution that can implemented TODAY: keep the price of the first 1,000L the same as it is now, but increase the next 1,000L by 10x. The next 1,000 and every additional 1000L by 100x. Watch consumptiion drop overnight. You cannot give something away and then try to coerce people to stop using it. Crazy notions that can only exist under government monopoly control. :(
Really charge for water even more than we are currently paying??? You sound worse than Eskom anouncing an increase on electricity. Stupid solution
+BadGirl Gaming How much do you pay for water? In rands per 1,000 litres?
I agree with you 200%!!!!
People disagreeing with you don't understand why or how the free market works. This isn't "putting the prices up", it is letting the price rise naturally to its current true value.
EmpiricalPragmatist Yes it is sad that so many people don't understand this concept
Funny thing - I've seen a document which informs me that DWS was informed by the 'experts' and were therefor fully aware that Cape Town was going to run out of water by 2018 and DWS were also told that work needed to be done at Voelvlei as a matter of urgency. This work falls in the domain of DWS and so its all very well to blame the Ciity and keep silent about the neglect of the DWS. If I've misunderstood the document I'd appreciate it if you could correct me.
If the DA spent money on desalination earlier, you would blame them for wasting money back then... There is no way to make greedy civilians happy.
That kind of developments can only come via the national government. it is on this level that things went wrong.
desalinization plants would cause massive pollution and speed up the greenhouse effect.
I see an awful lot of wasted water. Have they done anything with desalination plants? South Africa seems to have a lot of problems all at the same time in 2018.
Well done DA!
0:25 seconds
Holy shit. Is that Voelvlei? We used to go sailing here as kids, and that looks like the headland we used sail around...
DA too arrogant to take advice earlier on desalination !
ebie j ANC to arrogant to fund opposition party for the livelihood of the people
Already March 2018 almost April let’s pray for those in Cape Town only if I could provide extra water from here in Western Canada 🇨🇦
When you blame a government for the peoples mistakes lol
Wow, I always wanted to visit Cape Town.
Long term solution plant trees, The Great Green wall across the Sahara is proving to be change in climate change in that region Short term solution let's suffer
kabelo tsepang Wish folk would stop parrotting phrases. You don't build walls out of trees, you grow HEDGES.
R3 Billion for water augmentation seems incredibly low.
I hate how this video shows poor people as the one's who are wasting water!! It's flippen suburbia that's wasting!!. Not shack dwellers. Get the narrative properly
Londiwe Makhosi Msibi I'm thinking the same thing. Why show black PPL only
Londiwe Makhosi Msibi you missed the point mate, they are showing you the people who will be affected the most. Nobody blamed poor people.
Whoop whoop! Mad Max here we come
Hahahaha, this city is not well ran
Ur an idiot, hahaha
fuck genius i never knew that.thanks for telling us that shithead
Crazy how we are surrounded by water and don't find a way to use it.
The problem is the state who wastes and steals the money.
Pray for cape town
This is what it will be like.. people blaming one another and banging on about the ANC or DA or whoever, and not grasping the fact that climate change is here and we are all to blame.. plus, everyone knew it was coming, for a long time.. bitching about it is thirsty work.. dealing with it, in any way you can, is survival..
socpa agreed. Typical humanity always shift blame. No matter the government a natural disaster is a natural disaster nonetheless
socpa Climate change yes into a 'grand solar minimum', not global warming. However South Africa is a problem due to population drifting from rural towards the city.
so does the current govt have the capabilty to solve this crisis? does it have the finances to fix it and if not why not ?...
Two solutions that are not even being looked at: intensive leakage/loss management and using oil tankers to bring raw water to meet the city's requirements on a daily basis.
Ask God first then water will b there....remember prophet TB JOSHUA prophecies about it.....please let us go and repent of our sins then God himself will forgive us...water will come
Adamson Chihana like your comment
This is the exact reason why cape town failed xD
na, he doesn't care anymore...
Lol . Ur stupid . Still believing that bs 😂
sam gomez..... To God be the glory in JESUS CHRIST name Amen....your insult to is a blessing in JESUS CHRIST name
the funny thing is by the end of the day, ignorance is what lead them to this. instead of being lazy and thick headed, they could prepare for such situation 5-10 years earlier.
Did Zuma steal the water too Funny DA has failed to deliver. while they are busy blaming ANC for everything that goes wrong. at least people in ANC ruled municipality have basic needs. your beautiful ocean views or salty waves won't help you with shit if you don't have water.
Lunga Thyobeka Lunga explain to me Zuma and DA. I would like to K know more about SA politics.
Water is not controlled by municipal government (DA) but national (ANC)
Thus the ANC is yet again at fault.
Like the guy said "No point in worrying who is to blame - it's too late". What are the plans NOW ? Didn't hear much about that.
The key to it is God that's the Key...He can pour down water to last decades to come but people overlook Him just to complain. LetUsRepent and He will restore our land.
Life Christ i mean you can try that, but maybe don't flush after every piss as well
so no to crack Life Christ!
Don't be a fucking idiot mate! People are going to die and you want to ask some imaginary entity in the sky to sort out dire issues...
Oh fuck off. God....LOL! It's 2017. Grow the fuck up. I cant believe that people still pray to this imaginary guy in the sky.
Trevor Phillips .... Yes exactly why your in that very predicament to start with, unbelief, but He is a just God. He will hear those who seek His forgiveness to restore the land.
There are still people filling there swimming pools .why are water restrictions only for certain people
I have a splash-pool, and it is full. I have an outlet on my washing machine and gutters into the pool. It foams when I turn the pump on, but at least I will be able to flush my toilets with this water when Day Zero comes. My Firepool is now my emergency toilet-water reservoir.
We elect people to make sure that things are done on our behalf..
People will always be human..meaning that each of us will want more for ourselves and our families.
If the government doesn't understand that people are selfserving..They shouldn't be in office
Politicians are the same the world over ... "there's no point blaming anyone".. indeed, there is! Those in power who did not plan though they knew it was coming.
Israel has the solution to it!
Wasn't it as early as 2002 that warnings of water shortish would be arriving in 15 yrs (from then)?
I'm wondering if they looked into reforesting the area around the reservoir to as part of a long term solution.
All valid questions and concerns, government in itself is a body that exist that should be able to manage mass amount off people thought systems, processes and applying experience, comprised out of a group of knowledgeable experts in their fields, engineers, city planners, community representatives, lawyers, accountants, public servants etc.
The city is correct is saying for now, no need to focus on who's to blame, as it is a waste of time, energy and resource for now. (but we all know that their lack in planning, expertise and management is to blame for not foreseeing something like this)
My concern now is the questions raise in this video. Where are water points, how many tab will be available to supply water, containers ? (not every one can afford 100 l containers for family of 4), what about elderly people, how long will we be standing in the queue? What will the effect be on businesses. If business close, that means not pay for some people, which in effect will means a rise in crime? Sanitation alone is a big one ? No one knows how the mass of people for react when this all occurs.
How much of that fresh clean water gets flushed down the toilet? We all take water for granted. This is a wakeup call.
I Think about this problem holistically, I consider all the facts as well as all the good "and bad" comments. I conclude that yes it's a known problem, Yes they should have implemented all the required measures mentioned. The Question is where should that be funded from? If you run the opposition party how would you play your strategy to make sure your opposition fail? Just a simple question I ponder... You can now start asking more critical questions such as why is there so many violent protests, why are farms in this area being set on fire, why did we pass legislation to punish our tourism industry (not important to Cape Town at all)... Does it seem like a deliberate attack on Cape Town's Economy?
In this modern era , there are many ways to extract pure water from sea water ....and rain water also can be used ...so i have to say that the government should take steps on it from the last few years
Back in 1997 I met white SA refugees in Mocambique - it was a 3 generation family of 17 people which had build and run a metal producing plant for more than 30 years which gave all kind of work to locals - so most of the 200 families in the nearest village lived of the plant. Then comes Mandela - and people with black skin should be employed in top positions. Pluss wave of robberies, muggings, burglaries, blackmailing from former SA soldiers and more. They left - sold the plant for a % of the profit (which was zero) to a black cooperative. 18 months later the plant was dead due to no planning for coming maintainers on vital heavy duty equipment&lot of theft. Plant became scrap metal. So 200 families lost their income - a thriving village into misery. And so the story goes - when things goes black - civilization dies and never comes back.
Fenale leadership.
Yay
Water engineers in Cape Town came up with the ultimate solution but politicians don't implement. A water pipeline must be built from the van der Kloof dam in the Gariep river to one of Cape Towns dams. If this is done as a matter of priority, it could be completed in a relatively short period of time. The huge advantage of the project would be that Cape Town will get water in summer when Gariep has water in excess while in winter they would not need to withdraw water from Gariep. The only problem with this project is the political will to do it and to do it NOW.
Happily living in an area of the world with 230+ days of rain a year
That's up to two cubic meters of water pr. m2. Want some?
"We are damn good of coming up with solutions to crisis".......later "We're out of water..everyone RUNNNNNN"
"Get out of my way government. Don't hinder my business. I expect robust growth." ...."Why didn't my government plan better? Save me government. Save my business. Save my life."
Oh dear where are there trees where are there flowers plants create water. I don't know anything about African plants but you all must know about your plants time to narrow the asphalt and grow vegetables and fruits and shade and flowers God bless all of you Godspeed
It's easy to point fingers at what should have been done differently, but people who try to spin this into being a management problem, when it is a draught problem, are either dishonest or ignorant.
The video talks about Level 1 restrictions. At the time of publishing we are at Level 5. Not exactly up-to-date.
Nobody talks about the consequences of running out of water. The tourists who will leave the city as quickly as they can. The businesses which cannot operate, the worker who will not get paid. What happens when you have commitments, car and bond payments, rent. Is there any talk with banks to suspend payments for people affected by this willfully created crisis? Or will the city provide automatic loans and pay it on their behalf until the situation improves.
IMO, the city has no choice whatsoever to make sure that water remains available no matter what the cost. R3 billion seems a small price to provide water for 3 million people. R1000 per person invested, and the city could ask for it to be paid back over let's say 10 years.
The real reason you have problems like this, is the way you raise your children, children are and have not been taught to accept responsibility for their actions and choices in life, and the result is that as adults, all they pretty much do is blame someone else, because it's all they know, it's what they where taught as children.
Children need to be taught properly, by example, beating a child is not teaching them, you have to start from day one.
Until society changes how it teaches or I should say does not teach it's children, it will only get worse.
Children need to be taught, there are consequences to action and choices, you do not need to use violence to accomplish this, lead by example, children learn much more by what they see and hear, not what you " tell " them.
Are you doing any water recycling? You don't need fresh water to water the garden, flush the toilet or for many industrial processes?
build a desalination plant/.................fast
"WE DIDN'T LISTEN!"
fuck genius,really!!!!! we did not listen
California better take note!
Desalination plants? Tow icebergs from the pole?
Who drained it down, to store it elsewhere ??? Later to sell it back ??? Portion control is at the door, for every country. Watch, and pray, and hope in God - Hebrews 11:6*
Cape Town is my ❤. My entire family still live there. I now live in 🇺🇸. What's the solution? How can we help?