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Nik Gowing in Cape Town during the water crisis

Filed under Climate Emergency

20 January 2018

Cape Town’s reservoirs are running dry! Patricia de Lille, Cape Town Mayor, has announced that the city’s taps will be turned off on the 21st April 2018. This will leave almost 6 million residents without access to water – unthinkable a few months ago. Join our big global project to track Unthinkables in these disrupted times. Could your city or town run out of water? What Unthinkables worry you? Nik Gowing was in Cape Town to see how desperate the water situation was in the city and its nearby reservoirs. #UnthinkableThursday #UTT #DayZero #CapeTownDrought #CapeTownWaterCrisis