Source: The South African Date: 2017-12-05 It is all but confirmed that from February next year, Cape Town will be introducing a “water tax” or a water levy or a water surcharge. Call it whatever you will. The purpose of the… Read More »Cape Town Water Crisis: What you’ll have to pay in ‘water tax’
British tourists have voted Cape Town the best city in the world for the fifth consecutive year. After a poll of 90,000 readers in the 2017 Telegraph Travel Awards, the South African city of Cape Town was victorious, beating Vancouver… Read More »Cape Town has just been voted as the best city in the world… again!
What it is? “No More Bare Feet” was established in 2016 by Mondeka Mabibini, as the second leg of the Uphawu Community Development organisation, of which she is the founder. What’s our Aim? The aim of the No More Bare… Read More »No More Bare Feet – Uphawu
From: City of Cape Town Date: 15 November 2017 Today I visited the Wemmershoek Dam to view the progress made on removing alien vegetation in the catchment area. Alien vegetation around the dam and in the catchment areas uses a… Read More »Removal of alien vegetation at Wemmershoek Dam will help City save water and stretch supply
From: City of Cape Town Dam storage levels are at 36.8%, with useable water at 26.8%. Collective water usage is 582 million litres, therefore 82 million litres above the required level of 500 million litres per day. Our dam levels have… Read More »Wind, hot weather leads to decline in dam levels
From: City of Cape Town The first water from the Oranjezicht Main Springs Chamber started flowing into the Molteno Reservoir today, 8 November 2017. This is part of the City of Cape Town’s ongoing Water Resilience Programme to increase the… Read More »City commissions project to bring additional drinking water online from springs and Molteno Reservoir
To make a burger, first, you need 2498 litres of water … Our severe drought in the Western Cape has made a lot of us more aware of our ‘water footprint’, the amount of fresh water we use plus… Read More »Save Water – Stop Eating Meat!