Cape Town jumps for joy as water curbs and prices plummet
Cape Town’s water restrictions will be eased further from December 1, mayor Dan Plato announced on Thursday.
Restrictions will be scaled back from level 5 to level 3, and the limit on daily usage will be 105 litres a person, up from 70 litres.
The new usage limit is more than twice the 50 litres Capetonians were asked to confine themselves to at the height of the Day Zero emergency.
The city’s new collective water-use target from Saturday will be 650 million litres a day, compared with a never-achieved 450 million litres under the unprecedented level 6 drought restrictions.
Plato said water tariffs were also being reduced, and households that limited their monthly consumption to 6,000 litres would pay 35.5% less. The requirement for businesses to reduce their water consumption by 40% year-on-year has also been removed.
Source: timeslive.co.za
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