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“We Must Avoid Day Zero” – Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From Running Out Of Water
If you’ve ever needed a reason to store extra food and water, this just might be it.
Cape Town, South Africa is on schedule to run out of water in less than 95 days, and when they do, the government will turn off the taps.
“There are only 95 days left before we reach Day Zero,” the City of Cape Town announced on January 15 in a statement. “Day Zero has moved a day closer this week to April 21, 2018. Day Zero is when the City will be forced to turn off most of the taps.”
The coastal South African city has been battling droughts for nearly three years, amounting to the worst one in their history. With little rain on the horizon, the city has now ordered its 3.7 million residents to drastically cut their water consumption, take short stop-start showers, not wash their cars, and flush toilets as little as possible. If they don’t, all of their taps could be shut off by the government in April.
The city doesn’t appear to have any plan in place for such a SHTF event. But if the government cannot find a solution to the problem, Capetonians will be forced into “bread lines” for water. As if that isn’t scary enough, city residents will have a limit of 5.5 gallons of water a day that will only be given to them at specific government outposts around the city.
Cape Town’s mayor Patricia de Lille tweeted: “I cannot stress it enough: all residents must save water and use less than 87 liters [19 gallons] per day… We must avoid Day Zero and saving water is the only way we can do this.” Not missing the opportunity to levy extra taxes on the populace, the city mayor has also impeded a “drought charge” in order to fund new water projects, such as constructing desalination plants.
The climate alarmists are out in full force too, quickly blaming the drought (natural occurrences throughout Earth’s history) on the junk science of “climate change.”
The earlier part of the drought in 2015 was largely blamed on the El Niño weather pattern, however, as the situation continues to worsen, experts are now pointing towards poor city management [government incompetence], a growing urban population, and – you guessed it – climate change. –IFLScience
Climate alarmists act like raising taxes in the name of global warming will somehow make the rain start falling. But preparing yourself for a situation such as this one requires storing your own water, and knowing how to properly filter water discovered. More and more, humans are having to prepare themselves for the government incompetence that makes horrible situations like this so much worse.
Off-grid living expert Scott Hunt said:
The key to beating a drought has always been storage. Water storage can make the difference between a harvest or crop failure, life or death. There are many methods to storing water. Digging reservoirs or ponds to collect the water when it does rain. Having buried cisterns will beat the effects of evaporation that accompany drought conditions. Using 55-gallon drums of treated water in your home can be a huge blessing when the tap runs dry or the source has been contaminated.
All of this can be done without the government, so you aren’t left waiting in line for your government-rationed water.
7 Comments on "“We Must Avoid Day Zero” – Cape Town Is 90 Days Away From Running Out Of Water"
iamwhoiamifyouknowwhatimean on Sat, 20th Jan 2018 2:39 pm
“As if that isn’t scary enough, city residents will have a limit of 5.5 gallons of water a day that will only be given to them at specific government outposts around the city.”
Why wait the 90 days to begin the rationing? Why not start it now, that way the remaining water will last a lot longer which will be a great strategy if the drought, due to increasing climate uncertainty, continues.
This situation is a great example of what is wrong with people. Even in this situation they are willing to use what water is left to live a normal life, instead of rationing now. I suppose we’re doing the same with oil and all other resources.
If there were a dozen donuts for every household every morning, but a shortage was looming, would they continue to deliver a dozen per house right up until they day they could only have one donut per house? Yes, that apparently is human behavior.
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 3:10 am
Let’s send them bottled water.
DerHundistlos on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 3:20 am
Interesting that the author’s climate change denying solution to the impending water catastrophe is it’s every man for himself. I’m not surprised by this approach as the denialist mentality is selfish, short-term, greedy, and entirely lacking in wisdom.
Please be sure to add the author’s name to the list of denialists scheduled for hanging with piano wire.
Davy on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 5:45 am
Storage with demand management is the key to water and energy. If this global civilization in its terminal phase can extend its survival then now is the time for all nations to work on resilience and sustainability strategies. Drought and floods are going to be more common with less uniform snowpack melt all points to a new strategy of managed scarcity. Overpopulation also points in the same direction. Food also fits into this strategy with less consumption and different crop strategies. This all points to demand management which is just part of wise behaviors. If there had been demand management strategies in place as the basis of the social narrative in Cape Town this water shortage problem would have been much less an issue.
Davy on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 6:27 am
The problem we now have with civilization in general is behavior. Most of our problems point to behavior issues. We then should ask ourselves is our narrative of techno optimism as our salvation a false narrative? Techno optimism is one of the main features of our behavioral problem today. We have succeeded in techno fixing many of our problems until recently and this has allowed a propagation of poor behaviors. Efficiency and cheap energy sources driving high performance machines have distorted the viability of our living arrangements. In the short term we have been able to maximize a social prosperity for many. This has allowed too many people and overconsuming. We are now dangerously exposed to overshoot issues and still perusing behaviors that are making it worse.
All this goes together under the topic of behavior which is really related to wisdom. Our wise men now preach Moar through markets and tech. We worship them on Wall Street and popular culture. We admire people who live to excess. It is even the hope given to the poor and the oppressed. They want Moar too. Our civilizational wisdom has been corrupted and we are now trapped in a way of life with an uncertain future. There is no way out of this. We are not going to power our way out of this. We are going to pay a price and that price is less people and less affluence. It will be a degraded climate and planetary system. This then is the starting point for a new behavior. We are crashing and burning as a people and as individuals in this insanity of modernism.
Once in acceptance that this is all wrong we can practice behavioral changes. This is the magic moment and that is change in failure. We need behaviors to deal with our existential predicament of having a global civilization in a terminal phase not moar affluence. Wisdom has always been the key. It was the key to keeping us out of our current trap but we failed it. We are now trapped as individuals with a civilization in a terminal phase. Wisdom is now telling us we are here in this trap and it is time to change behaviors. The problem is there are no more wise men that are listened to that can make a difference for civilization. This civilization will destroy itself because of this. The system itself is now hard wired to techno optimistic pursuit of Moar affluence. This is a hardwiring to fail. This has corrupted science and the social arts. When your best and brightest minds are fooled there is no hope.
This now points to another key and this is a type of transcendence that can occur at the local level. It becomes an awakening with individuals and small groups. These entities can practice good behavior as the greater world around them decays and declines. This is a new localism of yielding and adapting to these greater forces of decline. It is NOT the fake green mantra of a clean Moar. That is the some corruption that got us here. We cannot leave our existential trap but we can live differently within this trap. We are all stuck with responsibilities related to the life we must live. What you have to do is use this terminal civilization to leave it. This is surreal and requires a transformed spirituality with a new social narrative that has to start with the wisdom of less. This talk always makes people uncomfortable because it appears religious but it is not. Use your current religion or spirituality but ground it in the local, with nature and wanting less. This is about “No” not “Yes”. That is a profound step for moderns.
This is a very tricky undertaking because in so many ways this world will suck you back into its poor behaviors. It will tell you that you are practicing poor behavior when you practice the wisdom of alternative localism. Alternative localism is basically a rejection of globalism and its techno optimistic addiction. There is no blueprint for this new way of living although many of its results can be seen in earlier times. It can only be designed by you and your group in your distinct local. It is about wisdom of less things. It is about a wisdom of more adapted behaviors. It is about reverence for your local place. It is about learning to live with less but finding more spiritual satisfaction. This all has a starting point with acceptance of a civilization at its very roots as a failure and your life as part of it a failure. Quit blaming others and get on with changing yourself and your local. This new wisdom then will allow you to go forth in constructive change that must be grounded in stoicism with local focus. In a world of decline and decay affluence cannot be perused or you are just setting yourself up for failure. Part of this also means realizing failure will visit you because it will be the basis of a late term civilization in its terminal phase. You cannot leave that trap but you can end the trap inside you.
peakyeast on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 11:27 am
“Cape Town, South Africa is on schedule to run out of water in less than 95 days, and when they do, the government will turn off the taps.”
They probably mean they are going to turn off the taps in the poor and non-government districts, but truth is such a difficult thing.
_______..... on Sun, 21st Jan 2018 1:49 pm
Genocide more whites and rape more babies to solve your problems. That’s all they know how to do. How did these savages survive for so long? If whites didn’t send them food there would only be a few Africans