The Mayor threatened to shut off #water to #homes and #businesses, a doomsday scenario branded as #Day Zero.
In the mountains east of the city, just beyond the curving road
up Sir Lowry’s Pass, workers maneuver heavy machinery to stab at the ground
near Steenbras Dam, drilling deeply with steel pipes to bring forth water.
They are trying to tap into the Table Mountain Group aquifer,
which holds water in a vast lattice of narrow rock fractures beneath the Cape
Fold mountains that ring the city. Cape Town has eyed the aquifer as a water
source for nearly two decades, but plans were accelerated during a three-year drought
in which reservoirs shriveled to the point that Mayor Patricia De Lille
threatened to shut off water to homes and businesses, a doomsday scenario
branded as Day Zero
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