“We have 121 days left of usable water in our dams,” said De Lille at a briefing to drive home the city’s water crisis.

“We have 121 days left of usable water in our dams,” said De Lille at a briefing to drive home the city’s water crisis.

De Lille plans to write to Western Cape Environment MEC Anton Bredell, asking for the city to be declared a disaster area, so that it can institute emergency measures.

‘Crisis’

These would include treating waste water even further to put it in the potable system, drawing water from the Table Mountain Group Aquifer and the Cape Flats Aquifer, and in the long term, an ambitious R15bn desalination project with Eskom that would cost R1.2bn in operating expenditure (LINK).

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