Let's talk about the drought in Cape Town
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- I want to share some of my stories of what it is like to go on holiday in Cape Town at the moment. The drought is a serious issue that affects each and everyone of the people in the West Cape, especially the people that lives in and around the city of Cape Town.
As you might notice, the audio gets pretty bad at times, I tried my very best to salvage what I can of all the videos I recorded. But the wind in all the locations made it quite difficult at times.
Update on the situation:
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Should you still Visit Cape Town during this time? :
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Shouldn't only use that bucket in between turning the shower on and off, catch all that water! Use it to flush the toilet. No potable water should be used for toilets. Embrace the cold water that first arrives from the shower head, it is your liquid privilege to have running water in your home!
Gerard Walsh What if the water in the toilet splashes up into your bum? Is it still safe?
Whaat?!! I didn't know it was that bad! It's soo sad to see that people get excited about the rain, while I complain about raining in Norway all the time!! That was an amazing video! You said so many facts that I didn't know about and could never think of! I'm definitely adding this video to my public playlist!!
Oh wow thank you Gabriela! Yeah it is quite tough in Cape town at the moment, but we stay positive :) I did make more updates videos if you are interested in more about the situation 🤓
Problem solved 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.
being from Australia i know what its like we had a 7 year drought that ended a couple of years ago
all bad things must end
love the videos
wow. you are probably the most positive person i have ever met in my life. Are you like that in your everyday life too? what a bright example. If more people were like you, i think we would all live in a better world. I have lived and worked in Cape Town for 3 years, back in the good load sheddings years. Cape Town has a special place in my heart and it hurts to hear these bad news. My thoughts and prayers are with those affected. I will subscribe to your channel and i can't wait to watch your "things to do in Cape Town" video. Take care and keep up the great work.
Honestly one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me! Thank you so much, your words do mean a lot! Aw and yes since the load sheddings, it seems Cape Town just cant't get a break anymore! Here is to hope that it will get better soon!
Ps, I hope you don't mind waiting a little bit for that video? There has been such an increasing demand for update videos about the crisis at the moment that I put my "things to do in Cape Town" video on hold for a bit.
But thank you for your comment, and for joining the fam. I really appreciate it! :)
angello maltezo I've had the privilege of meeting him in person and yes he is super positive (and funny) in real life!
He's living proof that there's still hope for humanity!
You guys are waaaay too kind, really. 😅😅
What a beautiful part of the world. Too bad their going through that.
Hey bud, I saw your video right before I went to Cape Town Feb 2018. Now, my home city is going through our version of your water crisis and Manila doesnt have the resolve/ community initiative to solve the problem and be part of the solution. Cape Town did very well in getting the word out and the locals were awesome in the the implementation - car rentals stopped washing their cars, malls only used one faucet, people showered on buckets etc. How I wish we cared as much.
Are you more worried about the upcoming civil war or the lack of water?
Jeremy Turner allow them to drink chemical water and die qurkly... hahahahaha
Really good video and thank you for actually showing the real challenges in Cape Town!
Thanks so much! I really tried to be open about how the situation is like there at the moment, but I can't even fathom what is going to be like once Day Zero hits..
Hey man, please forward this to Cape Town’s government somehow: I have an idea for a water source that will be slightly expensive and power-heavy, but will provide a very reliable source of water. The idea is, you pump in ocean water, where it is then pumped to an evaporation chamber. The chamber gets heated until the water evaporated, going through ducts until it gets to another small reservoir where it condensates. The leftover salt in the previous chamber could be sold as a useful byproduct. Next, it goes through the usual sterilization and purification machinery. Rather simple actually but feel free to point out any flaws
EDIT: Nvm, I see a lot of people have considered this already
I am on holiday in cape town now, staying at the belmond mount hotel ( really nice place). I have a problem with the toilets here though.... I took a massive dump a few days ago and I must have flushed it 1000 times but it wont go away!!!! but water still keeps coming so its all good.
I go on a 3 week vacation to south africa on April 27 and will hit Capetown around Mai 15th and stay there until May 20th. Mixed feelings.
Hey Castorini, I made some more videos about the drought if you are interested. Might help you out with a few of your questions :)
Nice city bro. In Canada you could dig a hole in your backyard and have a well. Wouldn't need no fence neither..
My grandparents only showered once a week
Smashing thumbs up! WOW Really awesome beginning to end! great story content! Thanks for sharing how's the water problem there. I enjoyed watching your video!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate! Yeah, it’s quite crazy there at the moment, and it seems that they have tighten the water restrictions even more recently
I hope things get better, but from what I just read the limit might be going down to less than 50 liters per person per day. People visiting in a hotel might not care. Not good. Catalina Island (off the coast of Southern California) uses salt water for flushing plus does have a desalination plant. Running salt water through a toilet requires more maintenance, but you got to do what you got to do.
roachtoasties fortunately I don’t think this is accurate.. they will keep the 50l per day margin until the day the taps are switched off. Only then will they only provide 25l of water per person at POD’s .. but some good news, they were able to bring water usage down, and they received 20 days worth of water from private farm dams, so now the predicted date of Day Zero has been moved to 4 June!
By then the rain will hopefully come (Cape Town’s rain season starts in our winters) and some aquifers and desalination plants will be up and running.
At the moment, things look kinda optimistic ☺️
Your videos are the best. So interesting and informative. Thank you! Looking forward to the next one!
Thank you so much Master Matt, your comments are always so motivating 👏🏼
How surreal I don't think people all over the world realize this is the future reality for us all unless we all do our part to conserve water
Its really funny to talk about a town almost about to dry up cause of a drought when 75% of the town is surrounded by water.
Cape Town is about to collapse by May 2018. The drought has ended this city. The only hope for recovery is to have 5 years of catastrophic flooding rainy seasons with 2 tsunamis to restore the water levels back to normal
Thanks mate for sharing. Safe travels.
I appreciate your time I thank you, safe travels for you as well friend.
Thank you for updating us.Yes Cape Town is still beautiful no matter what.
If your faith is strong , the more resilient you become and the focus is on the unseen.
The taps can run dry any where in the world in the future.The Bible predicts more famines ,earthquakes to come. Droughts cause famines. Politics just make things worse.People remain stubborn and do not want to adjust to more natural ways.
Such wise words :)
The opening scene is my back yard, love it!
Haha such an incredible view for your backyard!
So much sea, yet so little drinking water.
Thanks for the update.
Of course, thank you for watching :)
I´m from germany and my teacher wanted my class to see this video. Really nice!!
That is incredible! I never knew schools would be interested in using this video. Thank you for letting me know 😄
I'm so glad I found you and your channel. I just wanna hang out! I feel really motivated after watching your video! Subscribed! 😙
Wow thank you so much! I really appreciate! :D Yeah sure I'd definitely recommend SA as a good hanging out location! 😄
You all need to contact the Israelis. They have perfected desalination of water.
Good point Genie, but it was done already and is one of the sad stories to tell in this whole saga. Our leftist government is pro Palestine, so anything Israel offers is rejected. I know personally the people involved in setting up the meeting for the desalination plants with the Israelis before the crisis is where it is now and embarrassingly our representatives and politicians never showed up for the meeting. The Israelis would have sorted this out ages ago. Don't be fooled by the climate change and drought only story, this problem has been long in the making due to a marxist incompetent government.
Genie Griffieth Griffieth Israel offered free help but they refused because they hate jews now they will go back to their stone age life.
Genie Griffieth Griffieth Singapore also have desalination plants
Awesome video though. I will be visiting Cape Town next week and my friends and I have been very worried about the current situation. 50L each person sounds quire daunting, bro! I admire your positive attitude and optimism. Nice choice of outro music, bud. Will you be going to ULTRA? :D Cheers, bud.
Haha yeah you guys are going to have it worse than I did with this new restrictions! Best of luck man, and thank you very much! I wish I could attend ULTRA, the last time I did was back in 2014, I recently moved and live too far from these events :( .. have a good day man!
I was under the impression that you live in Cape Town, bud! :) In case you're in the city and you have free time to meet with three Filipinos who thought it was a good idea to visit during the crisis (to attend a EDM festival, no less LOL), feel free to drop me a line. We're arriving on Wednesday. :D
I have just checked the weather forecast, dunno how much stock you put into it, but according to it, it will rain on Friday afternoon. I hope their models are correct. *That's also around the time that Ultra is on*
Are the locals hoping the tourists stop coming? More tourists = more water demand and usage. Tourists contribute to the problem, but on the flip side I read that tourism contributes to somewhere around r402bn (35 billion usd) per year. Loss of tourists = loss of jobs for locals. My husband and I were planning a trip in September 2018, but I'm not sure if we should still come. Don't know what to do..
Hi Kirstan, I have made a video on this particular issue if you are still wishing to visit South Africa! I try and answer all of the given questions as well :)..
For an update, Day Zero has been postponed till next year!
Thanks for the reply, I just checked out your video. Actually I subscribed because I thought your intro shots were really cool (on the should you still visit Cape Town video) I liked the transitions, so thought I'd check out some of your other videos :) We decided to still visit Cape Town and booked our trip a couple of weeks ago, I'll be going in September for 2 weeks. Are you from South Africa?
That’s wonderful! I really hope you will have an incredible time over there! Yes, I’m indeed from South Africa :)
cant you use the sea water and treat it? or even use it to flush and wash? or dig wells? glad you had some rain though
Sword good question, they only recently commenced in building desalination plants around Cape Town, and by recently I mean November 2017. Places like the V&A waterfront would most likely be able to provide 30l a day per person in that area alone. But it is highly unlikely that most of them would be built on time. As it looks now, many people will have to queue at certain water points in the weeks to come. As for boreholes, it remains a grey area. It is possible to drill yourself a borehole but since the demand is so high, you can expect to pay around R60 000 ($5000) for one tap in your garden. And if you want to take it a step further by attaching the borehole to your current house pipe system, the prices can go up to R120 000 ($10 000) with certificates and everything. The majority of Capetonians just can’t afford that.
If you flush salt water, it's another step at the wastewater facility to try to recycle it. You can use gray water to flush your toilet, though.
salt water can corrode the pipes though. Might not be a good idea (?)
$5000 is the going rate to have a well dug in my area of Texas. That price is to go down 200 ft. Usually water is found before that depth. But if they have to drill deeper--naturally the price will keep going up.
beautiful... blessings in Jesus
nice video, thanks for sharing. looks like it was a dry place to begin with, where's the trees?
There is still trees fortunately! The natural vegetation found all over Cape Town rely more on the rainy season which occurs in the winters in SA. Unfortunately however, the total rain per year has been on the decline since 2015.
*W A K A N D A*
If you are visiting, use water sparingly.. who wants to vacation somewhere where there isn't any water??!! Screw that, living with no water!!!
It's not a drought, it's a Manmade Disaster. Scientists have been warning that this could happen since the 90s, and authorities just didn't give a damn. Look up the video where prof Antony Turton, water expert, explains this, and Helen Zille telling her story on how she had to plead for the Bergriver dam to be constructed, or the situation would have been worse. It had me Furious. Utter incompetence, downright laziness on the side of the government. How pathetic.
Indorm this is exactly the problem not s drought
If I ever come I would donate water, I know it won’t help a lot but still
Last summer I was in Surrey, Canada they had 4 months of sunny days in a row. Near drove me nuts! But people were loving it. Water restrictions got to level 4.
In Cape Town, since they live so close to the ocean, are individuals setting up desalination equipment to get fresh water from sea water?
That’s incredibly interesting 🤔 I never knew parts of Canada also had water restrictions, thank you for sharing! Yes they are busy with the construction of three desalination plants as well as expanding three current aquifers! I talk and explain a little but more of this in my recent videos if you’d like to know more :)
This water shortage is utterly unnecessary. The whole Cape is surrounded by thesea. And, guess what? The sea water can be desalinated & distributed at very reasonable cost. However, as usual, the government & local rulers can not see the woods for the trees. The so-called water-savings suggested do not really do any saving. This is just another way to punish South Africans by not giving them good service but charging an arm & a leg for non-existent services. Contact me if you need advice on how to supply potable water, etc to the Cape.
You need to follow Israel lead in desalinization plants ruclips.net/video/MIMoaptdDWs/видео.html problem solved. Before 6000 years ago the Sahara desert was green , you can't beat mother nation.
Daily updates/more info would be super interesting. Are people leaving/plan to leave? Is Pretoria going through/about to go through the same? This is quite historical. They talk about tourists, but I don’t see how many people would want to visit Cape Town now. Many visionaries have/are investing in potable water (maybe they’ve read Dune too much, but makes sense to me). Thank you!!
I've never really thought about making this a series, but as you put it, it could be quite interesting. Thank you for the idea :)
Yes! Make it a series, it would be so interesting...and people could learn from it as well!
Plenty of water in the sea.
Emma Wilson good observation 😉
Thanks for the informative video and updated jnfo.
Of course! Thank you for stopping by :)
Great video and sorry to hear about the water shortage. What measures are being made by the government to solve the crisis? Or are there solutions to the problem?
I know first hand about not having water. Living in Sweden on the countryside we have pretty harsh winters, and when I was younger our well froze over when it was -30C, and it didn’t thaw for 6 months. We didn’t have running water for all of that time. The frozen well and pipes thawed in the middle of the summer. :)
This is a great question, our government system is pretty bad with this at the moment, the whole reason being is that the national government of South Africa (incharge of funding)and the provincial government of the West Cape (incharge of managment) are oppositions. And well you can imagine that this could be a problem. Everyone is playing the blame game and nothing really seems to be done on time. With that being said, the west cape government are working on this by building desalination plants and expanding the aquifers we have at the moment, it’s just a little too late. There will most probably be a time where the water will be switch of until these solutions are made available.
Also whoah! Sweden sounds tough man, no wonder you look like a viking! Haha that is insane over there, I’d be very interested to watch a video if you ever made one about this topic! 😃
Great video...awesome narration.
Much appreciated littlemovies1 thank you! :)
Great video
Thank you Alex! :)
I'm coming to Cape town the first may and i already booked my flight since a few months ... do you think its better to cancel my trip?
I would recommend you still go! Since the government rely heavily on funding (A big chunk of which comes from tourism) to support the West Cape in the drought crisis. If you would also just use water sparingly I don't see a problem at all :). It also depends on where you will stay. The water for the CBD of Cape Town is unlikely to be switched off and places like The V&A waterfront would be able to provide its residents with 50l per day of water from its own desalination plant. Other lodges/resorts may may already have their own boreholes installed into their lodge/resort's pipeline system (Just need to find out about that)
Travel Ventures thanks a lot for the advice! But you dont think they gonna have riot there ? It's not going To be too much chaotic and dangerous ?
I understand your concern, It most probably will be chaotic the first day the taps are switched off, as new people will start scrambling to water points that they've never done before. But citizens in Cape Town has been preparing for this day for weeks/ some even months now, as well as the government. I wouldn't be too concern on how some media would like to picture how violent those days are gonna be since that is just pure sensationalism. It would still be safe to keep an eye on the trustworthy news outlets the weeks to come though just to be sure.
You are not aware of all the facts. If there is a drought, the first people who complain are the farmers. Farmers have hardly made a noise. No failed crops. Actually some farmers have even grown mielies. We know there is very little rain in the W/Cape during the sumer. Surely mielies in summer, when there is a drought would be madness. But it was planted and is watered every day. Why???? Even with water restrictions.
Many of the private farm dams are almost full of water. TierwatersKloof is very low and the public looks at this dam to confirm the water shortage. But why arent private dams the same? And here is a SHOCKER, we are shown pictures of Tierwaterskloof dam when told to save water but many Captonians don't even know that Cape Town does NOT gets its water from this dam. The infrastructure does not yet exist. (Refer Cape Talk Radio interview with city water engineer.)
Waterless is not caused by a drought, but rather very bad water management by the city.
Great video mate!
Thank you so much!
I thought you were going to wash at the beach
Since level 6 restrictions are now in place, this might be the better idea!
:( sorry to hear this, can't even imagine what this is like, I live in Wales and it rains nearly everyday.
pembs spark problem is all that sand when u go for a dip in the Atlantic. you end up spending ages in the shower trying to get it out.
I live in cape town
Wishes for a great lots of rains in your area.
Your wishes are much appreciated!
Amazing video I’m subscribed 😉
Thank you Lerato! And a warm welcome to the fam! ☺️
Spend 20-30 sec dousing yourself, cut water, lather up, turn water back on and rinse for ~1:30, ???, profit.
OH-OW
Nice video dude, have subbed!
Shayne Robinson thank you and welcome to the fam!
Better start building composting toilets.
great channel I like your style
Thank you very much! :)
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A warm welcome to the fam Spicenight! :) I’m glad you joined!
Dude, sounds like you need to move if this continues to become a problem.
I am quite an optimist in this regard, as I see it, it will only be bad for a while, since Cape Town is not the type of city that would give up. They will just need to invest in other means of water for example desalinations plants and aquifers.
Sent me msg on RUclips I live in cape town and can supply clean drinking water as much as you need
Pee in the shower so you save more water mane
Well this is one option of course 🤷♂️
Just ran across your video! Thanks for putting this together on RUclips!! I'm a bit angry that Elon Musk, a fellow South African, spent millions of dollars on a space toy to WOW the world!! Why not spend his mega fortune on this water crisis??? Some people are just plain self-centered. If I had 20.9 billion dollars, I would help you all to have clean water every single day!! ♡♡♡♡
Thanks so much! Oh Elon, I believe he is helping the world in a different way, I guess everyone has their part in all of this 😊