Cape Town's Water Crisis Approaches Day Zero
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- A City Without Water: This year Cape Town has come dangerously close to running out of water - the first major city to do so. Efforts to reduce water usage have doubled - but will this be enough to stave off 'Day Zero'?
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Three years of drought have forced Cape Town to employ stringent water rationing. A water restriction of 50 litres a day was introduced in February, and residents are already struggling: “We’ve actually learned that getting water…that’s a privilege.”, Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson is concerned about the potential consequences of 'Day Zero': “We understand the risk of social unrest in [these] circumstances.”
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Soo they are almost at the point of being completely out of water and people are still washing cars??? Seriously, those are some messed up priorities...
And they probably fill those tanks up with tap water in the middle of the night.
They still have water, it's just strictly rationed out because there is far greater demand than supply. And the car wash they note they are compliant.
And you gotta wash cars. The town is still operating, people are still washing their clothes and so on.
Thats almost funny if wasnt not so funny.
Country completely mismanaged
Jon V ... We need look no further than who's in government....back in the days to before 1990's...life was very very different....and everything worked really well‼️
Did you miss the part where the population increased in the city by 45% since 2000? Allot less people in the 1990s. Though we all know what you're implying.
DorianD Swooty city population control is a part of city management isn’t it.?
"city population control is a part of city management isn’t it.?" No. Cities generally grow in population organically. This is basically how pretty much all cities in the west or anywhere else grows.
Unless you have some sort of weird government that controls how many people live in a city? Does anywhere even do that? Sorry, just seems like a really odd question.
Just think about where you live or if you have ever moved, you don't need a permit unless you are moving countries. Infact you would need more than a permit to move countries.
DorianD Swooty ever heard of residential zoning or building permits?
Dont worry , Nestle will sell you water at 1$ a bottle
$1? Don't be ridiculous. That's very healthy volcanic water. It's worth at least $3
Actually 1$ is roughly the cost for 1L-1.5L of water for the Nestle brand here.
D.A Silver
Dude..
D.A Silver
No. But you obviously didn't get it
D.A Silver
My comment
im suprised nestle hasn't jumped all over this
james hartley agreed. They could make a killing out of this disaster.
lets be real we want the top guys to have a nice christmas bonus :) i mean come on think of the poor stakeholders!:(
I'm a little shocked that all of you seem to not understand that nestle is part of the problem world wide. They move into a country, build plants, pumping huge amounts of free ground water from the aquifers massively lower the levels and then sell the stolen water to the people that can least afford this kind of expense. Greedy MFs and that goes for the a huge bully called Amazon, f them all.
They likely are, in spraying the sky with their chems they changed the weather pattern for the world. Indian no longer gets its monsoons.
@@mc1rgene751 When Bechtel took over the water supply in Bolivia they passed a law that the people couldn't even collect rain water. That's not freedom that's corporate fascism. If you're going to privatize water there has to be a competitive system without barriers to entry into the market.
*cough* maybe if they stopped shooting the only people who could help *cough*
Seems like they are wasting a lot of water, from spillage, filling up in that spring. Doubt these people actually will learn anything.
research it you idiot.........the spring runs 24/7, it always has, the taps were added so that Joe public could have access to it....the water that doesn't get used, go right back into the rivers.
Even in Germany we had some towns where no water came out of the taps. Shit is really serious!
no forest,no water...the key is forest for water
I remember a long while ago getting harassed by city enforcement for washing my car during the day. Thing is that I was using old bath water that would have just gone down the drain anyhow had I not saved it. They could not fathom why that shouldnt be an issue. It was quite literally waste water that was headed back into the sewer but instead I used it to not only clean my car but to water the grass as I parked on the grass and used non harmful safe cleaning products. I was quite proud of myself until they showed up. They told me I should use the hose water and just wait 45 mins until the water restriction hours were up!!
My thoughts go out to all you Cape Town citizens out there.🙏🙏
💜 love from kwazulu Natal
In India, there are water trains during drought. Tankers carry water from different places and fill the temporary storage tanks near the railways, then municipality supplies those water through temporary pipelines.
As somebody living in Switzerland running out of water seems impossible. This must be scary for the people of Cape Town.
very informative and to the point
I’ve got a question: why don’t costal areas use seawater just for the toilets? I mean, that would at least allow more clean water for drinking and bathing and cooking. Same goes for California.
Old comment, but in some places they do. Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, uses seawater for its toilets. It's very difficult though, because seawater is corrosive to pipes.
I cannot fathom how a COASTAL city can possibly run out of water when they have what amounts to an infinite supply readily available.
How to make a personal desalinization still is available on the internet. Just set it up, and you can have your own water supply with a bit of work and sunshine.
It has started raining last week and it is still bucketing down! It is wonderful..
That rain basically ended the drought right? I remember reading about this years ago.
Composting toilets, using grey water for the garden, toilets etc...water storage from rain, rationing and following Israel’s lead and building desalination plants. They started late but hopefully if they keep working at it they will have success. Other parts of the world should be doing the same. We have had a few dry summers where I live in Canada over my life, but nothing like this.
Hong Kong apparently uses *sea-water* for flushing the toilets there. I think that's a really good, practical move as part of an overall package to save fresh water. Ok, there'd be a cost for separate saltwater piping but for cities near the sea the cost might be bearable.
Domestic rainwater tanks too (for when it *does* eventually rain again) could be useful. There are some great examples of "rainwater harvesting" in India.
Hard to find a single stable and prosperous African country!
Hello. I am working on a water crisis project and need footage. Is it possible to use some parts of your video?
I love how everyone in the comments is suddenly an expert on south african politics.
This was on about a month ago.
Awesome, 'we are gonna be Mad Max 1 and you are going to be the sequels'. Sounds prophetic to me, sadly so.... No one in this segment mentioned that Capetown's water drought may be caused by ANC policies more than a drought. Long live the Cape of Good Hope .... :)
It wasn't caused by ANC policies as they have not been in control of the Cape town metro area since 2008. The supposedly white and smart DA have had a decade to prepare for climate change/long term draugths and simply didn't do it. It's not like billionaires have to stay in cape town if it runs out of water so if you think about it why would the DA really care any ways?
ur kind disgust me, why wont u take responsibility for ur territory?? cape town is under DA's rule. why must u always try to link blacks (the ANC or black population influx nywe nywe nywe when its nature that is only taking its cause.. it just so happened to struck the white's paradise, the DA's heaven. i call it karma. i know blacks will adopt, but u wont last. its a sign and some of u get it. GTFO of SA!!
Mphumuzi zwane what will happen to the whites who don’t leave South Africa?
Well, Mphumuzi, i think it's because white people ( here and in many other places) are suuuper sensitive snowflakes who can't imagine that anyone struggled more than they did or could possible worked as hard as they have. Because of this whenever something goes wrong it must be 'the others' that messed it up as taking personal responsibility for anything is not only too hard but is on the slippery slope of introspection they are collectively staying well away from. Of course maybe they are just dumb , ignorant racists dupes who believe what was beaten into their brains for well over a century...
As for the other person asking dull questions nothing is going to happen to the people who still own the country and isn't going to let go without rivers of bloodshed as is their historic recourse.
I love how these people face such a big issue with a smile and also being innovative everyday. It’s a hard task. Being like this for such a prolonged period. Hopefully you guys are showered very soon 🙂
Very eye opening 🙏🏽💕
control the damn population. that's a start.
I can understand that in areas of drought at certain periods of time. But the shaming for using water WHICH YOU NEED TO SURVIVE is a problem. Almost sounds like brainwashing. Govt mismanagement has trickled down to the people suffering.
I live in texas and we have received Lil small droughts, but nothing like this. I use the most water washing dishes. I have only one sink. Do anyone have ideas that could help me reduce water usage there as well?
Texas is not having a water problem.
Everyone should have large water butts, it would be a start to help in the future, hope rainfall comes soon to fill up the dams.
Someone should show these tips on e-news: showering ina bucket, the basin underneath the bathroom sink... really clever stuff I'd not have thought of. not genius but I mean its not something you think of. And now that its raining I'm sure everyone's taking a big bath.
William MacDonald Dodds I used to live in Zimbabwe and if the rains were late we had water rationing, we used to put a brick in the toilet cistern so when you flushed it used less water, worked a treat..
Everyone does have big butts though... Oh hang on...
Sue F or stop eating animal products, 1 egg takes 56 gallons of water, 1 burger takes 2000 gallons of water to make
oh you should be in politics
Incredible story. Water is essential for life, how quickly it ceases without it. It takes water to grow food. The conservation is laudable, but in the end, it must rain, or another solution. I think desalinization can work, I believe Saudi Arabia has constructed these.
Build desalination tanks at the ocean.
Those projects take years to complete, cost *a lot* of money, and require a lot of energy.. very wasteful way of purifying drinking water
Cold Steam the efficient way to use the sun geothermal composting rocket stoves any heat source to produce electricity and or distilled water explained from basic concept to employment. Water boils in a vacuum at 75 F or 24 C
Two open containers one full of water the other empty connect them at the bottom and water will reach an equilibrium 50 50. If one is sealed except for the connection the other will remain empty because of the vacuum created in the sealed container.
Gravity will overcome this vacuum if the containers are taller than 34 feet.
If the tanks are 40 feet tall the tanks will reach an equilibrium of water levels at 34 feet leaving six feet of hard vacuum in the sealed tank. This makes a vacuum pump set we need two of them if we were going to distill water as the cold side open tank is used to collect the distilled water from it as the continuous input of water needs to go somewhere.
Each sealed tank has four valves three at the top two of those on opposite sides (B&C) one at the very top (D) one at the bottom on the side (A), water-based vacuum pump operations are, Close bottom tank valve A and top tank valve C. Open top tank valve D. Fill sealed tank through top side valve B. Close valve B and D when full. Open bottom valve A.
This primes the system to let the warm water in that will vaporize and run through the system when you partially reopen valve B (to control flow rate) and open valve C to its fullest.
For only power generation need one pump set and one vacuum tank so we can have a Hot side and a Cold side one to boil the water and one to have the low pressure/vacuum to draw the steam in through the turbine then the cooling coils then to the tank.
At the bottom of the cold side, tank is a return pipe with the one way valve to the heat source the one-way valve prevents expansion back to the cold side and as the hot side vacuum chamber is the only outlet for the expanding water and it is drawn by the vacuum the cycle proceeds.
You can combine the two and get power generation and distilled water keeping the return line from the power generation system will let you switch if you don't need distilled water on a continuous basis in large quantities.
I am going to make one feel free to make one as well it is open source.
The largest desert is the sea
You're surrounded with water but you cant actually drink it thats sad
You could use sea water to flush the loo.
I've never read a more intelligent comment on RUclips
It is possible to use seawater for non-potable uses. Around 85% of Hong Kong's homes use seawater for the flushing system, and they mange it fine. So there are ways of treating seawater. Even reusing it again.
HK From Above Oh, that's interesting, thanks! I'd be curious to know how that works, I'll have to look into it.
If you can keep that separate from drinking water because sad as this is many times the rising sea levels in different areas of the world have drinking ground water contaminated with sea water. They can't water their crops or use it for bathing let alone drinking. This salt water causes clothing to be sticky. I guess if you can get over the discomfort of this sensation on your body and hair.
That would solve 2 PROBLEMS AT ONCE! Rising sea levels AND water shortages!
in the US, 80-100 gallons of water per day or more is used. 302.833/378.541 liters, oh, if own a swimming pool forget about it. 2,975 gallons -33,000 Gallons. 11261.6/124918.59 liters
i never knew how much water i used until i built a sink with rainwater tanks, washing hands easily took 15 liters per day and washing pa plate can take 3 liters
That bathroom at 4:07 is beautiful
This case it's a serious similar problem happen in Bali live with very little water supply for living. That's a nightmare.
This is normal for people living off the grid, water management.
Poor management, kinda like a giant Compton of the 70s.
Simply connect a hose from the watering station to the municipal tap'.
There is a clear solution; Brawndo it's what plants crave
it has electrolites
I remember back then we use to go fetch water from the near mountains to drink..
I read that the date has been pushed back to 2019 as there have now been some rains, however it is still far from ideal.
When I traveled to cape town there all I can hear, see, smell, taste, feel is water. How can it be out of water !!! Wonderful city by the way.
This is scary!!
Welcome to the Third World! Going out to wash my driveway...
yes they are
Don't worry, we'll all have a chance to experience water shortages within the next 22 years.
@arm & hammer detergent Second world term isn't used anymore, it was a term to the communist bloc countries. Today only first and third world countries are used,
First world: the west
Third world: shitholes
@@shendshyti8973 Idk, I use second world as a term like for countries that aren’t first world, but aren’t terrible ya know
There are ways of washing your car in Cape Town without going to a car wash - wasteful when they are in such dire straits!! That's just laziness - use a bucket like the rest of us used to in the past when there were water restrictions!
Water shortage... Let's have a fish tank.
I do wonder the difference in water from the tap and water at the filling station? I know there are better controls on the filling station water but it is still using water. I wonder have the industrial sectors been limited to 50 ltr a day as well? I really think that they are confusing using someone elses water as saving water.. A gallon of drinking water is the same no matter if the salon customer got it from home, the store or your salon tap. That gallon is no long in the pipes so it has been used no bloody matter where it comes from unless it is well water or reused reclaimed water. The water sprayers can help and water saving fixtures etc but a gallon is a gallon is a gallon of potable water so long as it comes from the area
Was gonna feel sorry for these guys then i realised that my tab water hasn't been flowing since last spring !! (Algeria), Yup you heard that right
So I watched a few videos like this, and i don’t know what things they can get on the internet in Cape Town, but I always wondered why people don’t order water off of the internet from places like America. It my take several months for it to get there, but if they time there order so say they get several cases of water a month, then they won’t run out of water. It all depends though if they are able to get things from other countries, and what things they can get though.
The water isn't really drinkable anymore because of all the chemicals they now mix in it to try and ration water supplies, it does depend on the person but I've had to go to the hospital and be put on a drip twice because of poisoning from the water.
Through out history cities have run out of water and people have had to move on. The difference today is that there are simply too many people to move. This is just the start of a period in time where water all around the world is going to become the biggest issue in most people's lives.
We should really figure out how to create a large scale efficient system to turn salt water into safe drinking water. Distillation would work well I think
desalinization plants should always have been made if your on an ocean. dont know why there are few of them.
weird how that areial view you saw lots of homes from the rich still having full swimming pools.
I agree ,I cannot live without garden. Here in LA, i am really trying hard to master hydroponics. Water is not wasted but need really good seeds to make it work.
Excellent! Even though my city of Houston, Texas has plenty of water for now (sometimes too much, as we are still recovering from Hurricane Harvey), I am proud when I save it. I can thoroughly water 19 potted plants with 5 gallons (19 liters) of water by simply placing each one in a bucket of water, letting it drain into the bucket, and then moving on to the next plant.
Hello, Ive been trying to find any articles or videos which show how other nations are helping Cape Town with their water crisis but I cant find any, if someone could help me please reply to this comment. Thank you.
I have a well on my farm. I drink as much as i want. But use very little for everything else. I have a dry toilet. And use 5 gallon bucket to bathe
Desalination plants should have been built years ago, but of course there were much better things for money to be spent on.
Not a big deal really. Anyone can purchase a desalination water distiller off ebay that uses wood or electric that turns ocean water to distilled drinkable water. It looks like a mini stainless steel water fountain and it really work . Its about tHe size of thrre frying pans on top one another
you can boil water ocean water the same way you boil alcohol and condense it the water vapour and make free fresh water and salt as well.
No water and no experienced farmers. Things aren't looking good for South Africa.
Don't need farmers when there is no water
well in wales that is one thing we have a lot of is water. it rains all the time out of summer.
The waste water doesn't go to treatment plants?
It does but rain water was so plentiful that everyone just apparently thought the free ride would go on forever,
police officers being told to be sensitive now that's something i've never seen before
4:09 I literally said wow in real life too just that moment and then he said it too I’m spooked man 😂
Proud to be a residence of UAE, excellent leadership any sector we can see..
I wonder if theres a blackmarket for water there?If buisnesses have no restrictions but people do they people will start buying it from the buisnesses.
working2Bselfsufficient bottled water, anyone??!!!
Nestle, Coca-cola,....or re-branded local h2o...!!!
☀ Cali- water and sun....
erintreez I was referring to city water. What they can afford. They are heavily rationed as citizens but not buisnesses. So buisnesses could charge lower than bottle water prices to the puclic. As a buisness consultant i see the opportunities and problems of many things. Its what i do.
erintreez And USA is not out of water.
I wish composting toilets was a bigger thing. I've probably used just a litre of water for cleaning it out once a month.
41 liter a day is still a lot
global warming (or is it climate change?) is blamed for this situation, but watch again: granted, Capetown is having a record breaking drought, but the real cause as far as I can see, is identified in this video: CT has grown by 40% but water infrastructure has not kept pace until they have been caught out by serious drought and hey presto! Day Zero.
For three years in a row?
When i lived on a sailboat learned to shower using 1/2 gallon of water. I'd bet money they do that. I basically on average used 9 liters a day but i didn't have a fresh water using flush toilet. Those Australian's should use composting toilets allowing for that water to go to a garden.
Why can’t the filth rich of Cape Town build desalination plants??
How do we not speak of this everyday? Serious problem on a global level. 10 years from now it will be on a global crises . Why I say fresh water is the new gold
How short sighted of countries everywhere that drinking water is used to flush toilets, and easier ways to collect waste water should be built in .
OK so answer me this... where is all of the waste water going? Here in the US cities have waste treatment plants that clean the used water and return it back to a reservoir. They are on the coast yet never bothered to build desalination plants. Israel lives off of this method of getting fresh water.
It is the government's "job" to supply its country with water.
Humanity doesn't have a water problem, we have a salt problem.
And Facebook
I would say humanity has an empathy problem.
The guy that said the DA were acting illegally by childishly trying to remove De Lille? Well he seemed like a reasonable person making an obvious point and that's all i try to do . Of course trying to say reasonable things in a society where the people with the money and education have been so deeply brainwashed and propagandized does often leave you looking like someone from a different planet.
their garden doesn't have to die. they're using too much water down the toilet. they could also compost their human waste. As for the showers they could take "green showers" where they dampen their skin, turn off water, scrub then rinse. they'd use significantly less water & be able to shower daily.
I was in South Africa 35 years ago, now South Africa looking likes going down
Um sorry, I am totally confused. In the same story. You. Used. Cape Town which I thought was in South Africa and you said Australia. Are you discussing both Africa and Australia. Or is it just Cape Town South Africa ?
How did it go?
God bless these people
My 4member family uses nearly 500 ltr a day nearly 130ltr per person
I save our water for the future kids in this world. Weve always gone the toilet after at least 5 to 10 times a day before we flush. The sink and dishwasher water go out in our yard. We were a family of 5 and just had a septic tank. It laster 15 years before we had it cleaned out. The guy couldnt believe it. The septic company keeps sending us reminders to have it done. Lol. We wash once a month because we wear our clothes more than once. Take spit baths, not real spit for those who never heard the term. We take a shower once a week if needed. We have a lake in our back yard. No shortage just wish everyone would do it. Take care of it. Very precious
There are a lot many people here complementing the bathroom😂😂😂
5:33 I hope they are taking great care of their fish and making water changes.
LOL
13:32 OMG Captain Maxim is actually the voice of Korg in Thor!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not in Iceland you could just fill the whole jacuzzi and spilling it after use
ummmm ... I'm not up on de-salinization of salt water into fresh and other methods water systems use. I have heard that de-salinization is quite expensive. Surely, it would seem to me, the viability of such a plant is being discussed.
"we're gonna be mad max 1 and you guys are gonna be the sequels... haha" 23:47 WITNESS ME
I like the song. Kind of catchy "Save the water, shower shorter" 👍
I live in a Caravan off the grid no municiple services at all so this S. African family is living quite luxuriously to me.
"We'll be Mad Max 1, you guys'll be the the sequels." Well I like his optimism.
This reminds me of district 9 movie
Ya know, when people are in crisis they don't even always pay attention. It's actually good that the water supply was not increased. People may actually try.
Also, use salt water where you are not going to drink or bathe. The toilet is perfect. Using perfectly good, clean water is such a waste. I wish my toilet was one of those that has the sink built in so that all water used from that sink goes toward filling the toilet for the next flush. If there is excess water then I'd want it to be stored in a tank for later use in the toilet. There'd be soap and who knows what else in that water so it is definitely not gonna be used for any thing else (unless we can filter it).
Can't truck in water. No desal. No rain. They're sruffed
23:46. Savage dad: "we're gonna be Mad Max one and you're going to be the sequals." He knows it
Where are the car washes getting the water for their tanks?
Brought to them from other provinces or other areas of the western cape. Presumably boreholes or privately owned dams .
Weird - this has just been uploaded yet there's no day zero this season. We've had rainfall and the dams will make it through to next summer now. I guess this must be old content?
Gary King its bullshit scaremongering propaganda that doesn't mention the corrupt racist regime in power making a mess of everything while top officials get rich.
They spill as much as they fill at the taps.